Where to go while having suicidal thoughts?

Go to the psychiatric emergency room at Charite Campus Benjamin Franklin in Steglitz. It's a bit further south than Mitte but often less crowded and the staff there are really solid with walk-ins. Tell the person at reception you're having suicidal thoughts and can't be alone, they'll get you into a safe room quickly. The entrance is on Hindenburgdamm, just past the main hospital building. You won't have to talk much if you don't want to, they're used to people who aren't ready to speak.

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You can walk into the psychiatric crisis service at Urban Krankenhaus in Kreuzberg. It's on Dieffenbachstraße, right near U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor. Tell the front desk you can't keep yourself safe and they'll find you a quiet room and a doctor. No need to explain your whole story, just say you need a safe place to be.

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honestly the best move is just showing up at the psychiatric emergency room at Charite Mitte on Luisenstraße. no need to explain yourself or talk much, just walk in and say you cant be alone right now. theyll keep you safe and figure out the rest. the U6 stops right at Charite, Schumannstraße exit.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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