Just pick up the phone and dial 98300 27976. This 24 hour mobile phone helpline service for the mentally sick and those at risk is taken care of by National Institute of Behaviroual Sciences - NIBS.

The crisis intervention network, one of its kind in the country, is attended to by professionals in the field of mental health. Mental patients will receive counseling from psychiatrists and psychologists seven days a week.

Families feel helpless, especially at night when there is nobody to hear them out. Now even at 2 AM a distressed mother can call us up on the mobile phone. Our first aim will be to calm the patient and then think of other emergency measures.

The team comprises three psychiatrists, two psychologists and a general physician. "Since it is a mobile helpline, we can be on the move while we talk to the patients. It will not bind us to the chair at any time. Callers will never encounter a busy signal or voice mail, the team promises.