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Family and friends

i feel so alone and i feel like killing myself. i want to do something but i am scared. my mom doesnt understand me its hard to live with people who dont even KNOW you. i hate this i wont...

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School

I get so scared about everyday. I worry about the slightest things. I spend all my time at home worrying and i have talked to mum alot about worry, she used to suffer so she helped me. but now she...

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Need help

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i am 13 yrs old and i am fed up with life. i am always been told to do things and when i do theres always my parents point out of me. they say im the oldest i...

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Please help me

Dear Sam...

I need help and advise. im feeling low all the time. i suffer with alot of mental illnesses like anxiety and depression which leads to  quite sevear panick attakcs and also have difficulty speaking to people about things...

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Lonely

Hi I moved into a new school a year ago from all my friends. When i got to the new school it was hard to make friends and it was hard at first but I am now part of a...

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GCSE exams

hey ive just turn 16 which now means im in year 11 which means end of year exams. im not the brightest person around and im really worried that i wont come out of school with good results. i think...

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Live or die

hey sam i feel like im unwanted and the best thing to do is kill myself today i tried to runaway i got near the bus stop but i saw my mum and i cudnt put her through that pain...

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Family and friends

hello, my mom has an illness that she got a while ago it has affected her way of living and also mine, shes been on alot of medication, and she has alot of mood swings, i carnt really remember the...

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Is everything out to get me?

So thing's haven't been right since that time it all came out. And now. I can't take it anymore. I'm beginning to think i'm depressed. I have happy time's... But i have more bad then good, and now there getting...

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I hate my life

My dad is in a weelchair because he has MS, I have to help him when my Mum is doing something or she is out, My brother does nothing.  My Dad recently went in for an operation so there has...

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Why now?

It has been roughly 4 years since my parents seperated. I never cried about it i never let anyone know how i felt. but latley ive been struggling to keep my emotions in and hide how im feeling. Every day...

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Help

hey my name is aimee and im 14 years old i have been feeling low for the past 4 years since my nan died but now its got worst im taking it out on my family and friends and this...

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Depressed

Hi Sam...

I have been feeling so depressed lately. I know some of the reasons why I feel depressed but there is something there that I don't know what it is and it's fustrating me. When I think about what...

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Life

I've never been more down.

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A serious problem or just teenage hormones?

Hey. I'm 15 and going through a lot of stuff right now. When I hit 12, I started to become overwhelmed with everything - I had a new school, new friends, family issues and above all I was changing, physically...

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I'm a really bad person:/

Im a 16 year old girl and recently i have been feeling very depressed.. it started when i met 5 people, 2 girls and 3 boys, they were friends of my bestfriend and she completely adores them, but they got...

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Help me please :(!

im feeling really down and i just dont know what to do nomore :( recently my friends seem to be turning against me and i have no idea why. i seem to be getting seperate from them. my boyfriend seems...

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What's Happening?

I am 12 years old and I am very different to all my friends, i'm in to drama and musical theatre and for the last six months or so i have started to feel exsreamly low. Sometimes nothing upsets me...

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I feel really down

I have been feeling really down for a while now, ever since i was bullied emotionally and physically about a year ago. I have got to the point where I feel unwanted, depressed, and i have started to self harm....

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I feel so helpless and scared

One of my friends is really depressed. She overdosed last year and went to see a counsellor and seemed to be a lot happier but then a few months ago she just burst into tears in the middle of school...

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Everything

I hate my life....

I'm a 13 year old girl, and I'm depressed. I'm not being abused, bullied, or anything but I always feel so low and not my usual happy self. I think this is because I'm a teenager,...

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Struggle

I am finding life a big struggle at the moment, and I need some advice on how to deal with it all. My brother has autism, and has major problems at school, which I don't feel like explaining, but it...

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Depression

Hiya Sam! ...

I have just turned 14 and i am really starting to question why i am still around. I feel like i have no where to turn and that my friends already have to much to do then...

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Life long depression? Indescribable

Well.. How can I begin.. I am a child who was always on the side lines and gave advice to those who really needed it.. You could even say I was a walking mobile ChildLine but there was just one...

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I have depression

I feel depressed all the time and i cry everyday because i am in Year 11 and i am failing all my subject while my friends are getting A* my parents bully me and swear at me all the time....

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I self harm

i dont know why. i just do it when im feeling low. sometimes im really happy and then sad and then happy and it keeps changing. when i feel sad or angry, i cut myself, ussually on my wrists and...

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Stress!

I've been very stressed an irratable lately and I don't know what to do. I feel like everyone expects so much from me at the moment! I'm 17 and mid A-levels. I'm doing five which is stressful enough, but everyone...

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I need help

Nobody in my family understands me. ...

My mum and dad split up when I was young, so I live with my Mum and sister at the moment but I conceal my emotions and try not to show them in...

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Me

Hi,...

My name is Steff, recently my parents split up, that wasnt too bad but i think everything has set in now. I feel really low and sad all the time, its worse when i am alone. at school i...

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I can't take much more

ive got all my gcses coming up in the next few weeks, and im getting really down by them. i get really bad exam stress and its pushed all of my friends away. a few of my family members are...

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How do I stop feeling like this?

I have a lot going on in my life right now and am finding it hard to deal with. Ever since things began to fall apart approximatly a year ago I have found it very hard to cope with. I...

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I just feel really messed up right now

Hi there. I'm Emily, and I'm 12 years old....

I suppose you get a lot of e-mails like this - i've read through the website....

Lately, I just feel really depressed, awkward at school, and my life is just going...

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My mam is always on my case

me and my mum has never really got on but things have started to get worse and worse, i'm 17 years old and i just cant wait to just be thounsands of miles away from her. ...

she gets me...

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Feeling lonely

I have friendship issues  theres this girl at my school and we are ment to be best friends which is fine, but sometimes she hangs out with other girls instead of me and i feel left out and she says...

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Depression

Dear Sam,...

I've been really really low for a long time now. I would never think about ending my life because it's happened before in my family and it tore my family apart but I'm finding it really difficult to...

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Domestic

Sam this is the first time ive wrote or spoke to anyone really about this. We've been having trouble at home with violence people damaging our property. im 17 years old i live with my nan and grandad me and...

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Back 2 School

So I wasn't sure which topic so i hope thats alright....

So in school before the holidays my friends so my self harm cuts. I told her they were cat scratches. Being a good friend she went to take me...

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How do I cope with my loss

Around 1 year and a couple of months with my partner I got pregnant even though we used protection. I had a miscarriage and we split up soon after. We've never really spoke about it properly and now after eight...

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Everything is bad...

Lately everything has gone from bad to worse... Im a 13 year old girl and have attempted suicide... Everything at school is horrible everyone hates me, I dont understand many things and i cant talk to anyone because i can...

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anorexia self halm depression

recently ive been feeling more and more upset about stuff which wouldnt normally upset my hair being right ( bad haircut)and ive also been feeling more down than usual getting called names and not touching my food and hurting myself...

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Family Life ;(

I'm 12 years old. I don't live with my mum because her boyfreind commited child abuse against me. I see my brother 5 nights a fortnight. And i'm not the coolest in my year. Today, I was on a bike...

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Self harm

hiya, im 15 i strted self harming properly in january when i had exams, i would self harm for a couple of weeks n sometimes even 3 times a day thn i would take a break or attempt to stop...

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Inpatient

There is a high possibility that I am going to be taken to a  psychiatric unit in the near future. For at least three months. ...
I am so so scared. At the same time I know it may be...

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Self Harm

I feel really sad sometimes. I can't stop thinking about how lonely I am and how no-one likes me and my thoughts are negative. I feel like crying a lot and I cut/scratch myself to try and feel better (it...

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I don't feel like I fit in.

I always feel low and wherever I am, at home or school I don't feel like I fit in. I always read my book to make me feel like I fit in somewhere and so I can get lost in...

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Urm......everything?

Wow, I'm nervous. Hi, Sam. I've been feeling kinda depressed lately and I guess I need to lift the weight off my chest. ...

I'm 13. Just so you know. Anyway, everything's kinda getting on top of me. It's basically...

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Stress

My parents divorced 8 years ago, and it's got to a stage where they can't even text each other without having an argument, and most times its through me and my younger brother. When he picks us up, mum pretends...

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mates!

school: its been so hard lately and i just cant stop crying! its unreal. i cant stop basicly! every time i look at my mates and i feel really sad and lonely! because they are all hanging out with someone...

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i hate my life

my family is always ill, my granhas just had breast cancer, my mum has had to had three operations, my two grandads have gto serios illnesses i hate my life my friends are sick of me not paying them any...

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Feeling sad

I am feeling very depressed at the moment when I'm at home. I'm fine when I'm out with my friends, or on holiday, or out with my family but when I'm at home I'm just a bit sad. I think...

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feeling messed up...

I'v just turned 15, I'v fairly recently started self-harming and I'v been feeling very low and isolated. It started when my dad moved out (him and my mum are married but separated), and my boyfriend-who i was very very VERY...

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Everything in my life seems to be turning upside down

Hi Sam, I was a stress worry free child... but now life seems  to uncomfortable to deal with, My dad/father left when I was 2 and I haven't seen him since, so I don't really know much about him. I...

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Self-Harm, again.

Hiya Sam,...

I'm 15, Last year I attempted suicide. And was at my lowest, I've been self-harming for around 2-3years now. I understand why I do it, but I just can't stop. It's beginning to get worse, and I limited...

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I hate my life.

My mum and her boyfriend keep having a go at me, when I don't even know what I've done wrong. then my mums boyfriend keeps saying how he hates me and how I'm so rude and lazy. and he has...

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depressed

hi,...

this time of the year, i'm all stressed about my homework. It just seems to get bigger and bigger, like a wall squeezing on me. Sometimes i get stressed about just nothing. I just have that unplesent feeling. my...

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feeling low feeling diffrent..OUTCAST.

my mum always tells me how ugly i am, how im a disgrace....

my mum and dad are seperrated and dont get on and when i asked my mum why there were she said it was all my fult, and...

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confusion

pleasse help. i need advice i do not know how to cope with my life anymore. whenever i try taking to my parents they seem to blenk me or have more important things to worry about. like my mum she...

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I don't belong..

I haven't been feeling right at all since around 10 years old. I've been bullied for things that arent true & I've had enough. People bully me because I'm bisexual & I don't like it, at all. It's like they...

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Depression

I don't really know why i'm writing this feel kind of stupid, but feel like i need to let it all out and this feels like the kind of place to do it. Last year I tried to commit suicide,...

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HELP! :'(

I used to get beaten by my dad like a month ago all he did was do weed and alcohol no job or nothing, I couldn't tell anyone about it, I ran away for about 3 weeks, he tried to...

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I am starting to feel very depressed

I recently got in trouble with the police, I have done in my past as well. I feel like my mum has lost full faith in me and just doesn't want to know me....
My dad sister and brother are...

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Why do I feel this way?

Hi, I'm A* and I am 15 years old. I am currently very confused about my emotions and why I feel so low. I feel like whenever I say or do anything I'm being judged by my family and friends....

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Feeling low

I think I might be depressed. I feel really alone and feel like there's no-body in the world that I can speak to. I lost a grandparent a few years back and have never met my real father, or had...

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Depression, suicide? Help?

I've had depression now for about 3 years, longer probably but that was when i started self harming. Im 16 and am doing GCSEs so theres even more pressure, especially as my familly think that A*s are simple and if...

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Help?

I'm pretty sure I'm depressed. I've been cutting for around a year, and have had constant low moods for around two....
Recently though, it's got real bad. I don't want to ever leave my room, I don't want to talk...

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Feeling the blues!

Hello, i am definitely feeling the winter blues, its absolutely freezing and i can't go out so i'm just stuck inside the house for hours and hours. Lots going on in my life, i have never felt so alone ever...

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i feel soo lonely D';

I'm 12 and I'm about to turn 13 but sometimes, no ALWAYS, I feel soo sad and lonely I wish someone could listen to me. My parents always hit me, when I do something wrong but when my brothers do...

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Is it just me?

Um hi... I joined this because I have a problem. I think it's just me and how evil I am but im a 12 year old girl and im always unhappy... I have a family and im spoilt by my...

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hi

I am very self conscious about the way I look I have a very narrow nose it is making my life not so good. I always worry about what people will say about the way I look and I am...

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Self-Harming and Depression

i cut and hurt myself. i punch my head and pull my hair. i always feel alone and depressed. people in my school always say im too thin and too tall, so when i get home i make myself throw...

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So confused :/

Hi Sam,...
okay, so recently I keep on thinking about my step grandad (who sexually abused me when I was 9, I'm now 15) I think about all the memories of it for some reason :( Also, i've been having...

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:/

Hey, ive been feeling really low lately and i find nothing helps me, last year i tried to kill myself, this was the fourth time i had tried in my life, and at the moment i am pretty close to...

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I can't deal with so much stress anymore!

Why do I always have to put up with too much stress?...
At home, I get really stressed because of my mum's constant nagging at me, I don't understand how she cannot loose her voice! She doesn't understand how I...

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I feel no emotions :(

 hey, I haven't contacted childline before but my friend suggested I do......
so like,for as long as I remember I can't feel any emotions,...
everyone thinks I just bottle up how I feel and don't talk about it...
but I...

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my head hurts from thinking terrible thoughts too much

I feel like I can't talk to anyone....

Sometimes I think about what it would be like to die, & think about cutting myself & even starving myself because even though I know I'm thin & people tell me that,...

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Help

im so depressed i ry alot i know people dont like me, my sister always says go away no one wants me here everyone says iam annoying and even when i dont i can see it on their faces that...

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Self harm

Hi there,...

Thanks for writing to me to ask for some help, I know that this is a really brave thing to do and I appreciate it might have taken lots of courage to do this, especially as you said...

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Self-harming and feeling down!

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i self harm quite a lot mostly everyday because people make me really upset and for a few months i have been cutting really deep that ive had to go to hospital to get stitches and im scared that...

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rape

i was raped bout 3 months ago i have told the police and he is arested it is 25 to 2 in the morning now and i have got insomnia ihave got that because i stay up all night oing...

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suicide, running away and self harm

Today ive had an big argument with my mam and felt really bad about what i said to her. I have a lot of arguments with my mam, while we were having a argument i told her to leave me...

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Self-harm

Hi, Sam....

I'm P* and I'm 14 years old. I got in trouble in school for carrying a small knife which I hardly ever used. I carried it for sharpening pencils as I always did in Russia (I came here...

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Self Harm

I harm myself all the time. It's really annoying because my parents get cross at me. Sometimes I bite myself if I get a question wrong or do something I shouldn't have done. Sometimes I hit my head of a...

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There's a sadness covered up by gladness.

Hi, i am depressed but at school i act happy. I dont know if this is normal but recently i havent been depressed and people are realizing. I also cut myself and others are seeing that as well! i know...

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Self harming and can't cope

I used to self harm ages ago but I stopped then I met this person who made me feel so worthless so I started again and I couldn't stop. That person told the school who made me tell my parents...

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my self harm

i have only been self harming for a couple of days,but everytime i get upset (which is a lot) i cut my wrists,i do it because i cant take it out on anyone else because im small and people will...

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losinghope

Im 17 years old and im in my first year of college. For years now ive had an ongoing problem with my family they dont like who i am i dont like them, we do get on well sometimes, but...

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Depression running in my family, I'm scared that myt get it.

Hi Sam,...

Depression runs in my family, tragic and new events have happened around me these past months, and I thought I was dealing with the good things and bad things in proportion to cause. Except recently I feel so...

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Am I bad?

Hi Sam,...

Bad things happen to all my friends. My youth leaders keep cutting me off when I try to talk about it. There is one teacher who I trust but I'm scared she will think I'm making a fuss....

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suicide

Hi, since i was 11 ive been starting to find myself, it took me a while and i'm still going now but ive been feeling extreamly low recently... i've had so many thoughts of killing myself. My step father used...

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Stressed and self- confidence

I feel really stressed and have no self-confidence in myself. I have been shy before and ever since I started school and I lack in self-confidence. Especially as it is coming up to Exam time I am very low in...

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