Support for right now
Guided steps for an urge, low mood, or after drinking or using again, one step at a time.
App in development
Your recovery. Your pace. Together.
Rise Beside is a support app for adults (18+) dealing with alcohol or drug use, low mood or depression, or both. It offers practical, step-by-step tools between other support, such as a GP, keyworker or group.
Open Rise BesidePhone apps: in development
The web app works in your browser without an account. Anything you enter stays on your device.
What it helps with
One step today
A short daily activity, usually two to five minutes, and a private calendar with no streaks.
Your own strategies
Save what helps, plan for difficult situations and keep your support people close.
What Rise Beside is, and isn’t
It’s a support tool, not a therapist, a treatment or an emergency service. It hasn’t been clinically approved, and it can’t promise recovery. It has been tried by NHS staff and its training programmes have been reviewed by a personal trainer, but it hasn’t been formally clinically assessed.
Need help now? (UK)
Rise Beside can’t contact anyone for you and doesn’t monitor what people write. These services are run by people who can help.
- 999Emergency services If you or someone else is in immediate danger, is unconscious, having a seizure or struggling to breathe.
- 116 123Samaritans Talk about anything. Free, 24 hours a day.
- Text SHOUT to 85258Shout Text support, free, 24 hours a day.