How to get help for someone who might be suicidal

(CNN) -- Fashion designer Kate Spade's suicide spotlights the importance of recognizing the potential warning signs when someone intends to end their life.

The attention is needed, especially now.

When a high-profile person dies by suicide, the "celebrity-suicide effect" can lead to a rise in copycat deaths. In the four months after Robin William's took his own life in 2014, there was a 10% increase -- almost 2,000 additional suicides -- recorded.

There is already a rise in suicide rates in the US, increasing more than 25% since 1999. Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in 2015, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If you or someone you know might be at risk of suicide, here are ways to help:

Call 1-800-273-8255 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. It provides free and confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week for people in suicidal crisis or distress. You can learn more about its services here, including its guide on what to do if you see suicidal language on social media. You can also call 1-800-273-8255 to talk to someone about how you can help a person in crisis.

Text HOME to 741741 to have a confidential text conversation with a trained crisis counselor from Crisis Text Line. Counselors are available 24/7.

For online chat, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides a confidential chat window, with counselors available 24/7.

To reach a counselor for LGTBQ-specific issues, The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. Their trained counselors are here to support the LGBTQ community 24/7. If you are a young person in crisis, feeling suicidal, or in need of a safe and judgment-free place to talk, call the TrevorLifeline at 866-488-7386.

For crisis support in Spanish, call 1-888-628-9454. For support outside of the US, a worldwide directory of resources and international hotlines is provided by the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

Another way to help is by supporting the nonprofits that provide suicide counseling, prevention and education. Volunteers are needed, and some train to become counselors.

Online donations for some of these organizations can be made by clicking the button above.

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The Gayly. June 7, 2018. 2:47 p.m. CST.