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Anyone can write in with their problem. I respond to a few letters each week. You can also read my advice to people who have similar problems to you.

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latest letters

My embarrassing day

ye me and my 2 friends went to my crush and I told him J liked him tben ran away I cane back and my friend told me he...

What my friend said

So ive been incecure about my body since forever and i started getting better and better and until a few weeks ago i ...

i feel ashamed

hi sam, i am 15 and a lesbian and i feel really ashamed. whenever people bring up gay people it makes me feel uneasy ...

Intrusive thoughts

Hi Sam, Recently i’ve been worried about something that I know doesn’t matter but i keep thinking about it. Basically...

Help

i havent been doing great ive been crying all night something stopping me from asking for help do you have suggestions

How do u cope

my mum is horrible and never loved me etc and now i don't know how to cope i get so attached to any adult figure that...

Message from Sam

You can write to me about anything you want and I read every single message sent. I can only reply to a few each week and I always do this in public on my page. I’m sorry if I don’t answer your letter but it’s likely there are others just like it that I have answered before. If you want a definite response or need support then talking to a Childline counsellor is the best way to do that.

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A - LEVEL STRESS

Hi I just started a-levels this year.All the coursework is piling up on me and I can't handle it. There it too much w...

Sleepover

One of my really close friends is having a sleepover, and she's invited all of my other friends, but not me. They are...

left out

hi sam it is nothing big but it hurts me inside more than people realise i feel disinvolved sometimes i have told som...

I still don't know what to do.

I'm 15 and in my final year of school, I'm taking my GCSE's at the end of the year and maybe will scrape a C's. I hav...

Brony and worried

Hey and yes I am a brony, but im worried about making youtube videos incase my friends find out and make fun of me pl...

don't know what to do

i am 16 years old and i have just started college and i really dont like it at all people have been bullying me since...

name calling

what happens if someone starts tocall you names and if they make fun on how you speak

Going to High School

I've been feeling little bit stressed about going to high school. I know it will be fun, but... at first i tryed out ...

Music pressure on school life

Hi Sam I'm a boy who has to do an extra 8-10 hours of work a week, the work I do is music which I hate! However by ...

Stress

I don't know what to do anymore. I really care about my grades. Like, REALLY care. I spend hours and hours revising f...

I do not know.....

I am really scared of school for 3 terams now I have been crying because my mum goes I do not want to go to schoolany...

Starting college

Hi I'm starting college in September and I'm so nervous! I have anxiety and depression and panic dissorder and the te...

help please

So its the summer holidays and the thought of school makes me want to burst into tears, all the subjects I have picke...

Pressure

Hey,All the way through my life,I have been expected to be the top of my class and been known as the know it all. I'm...

Homeschool

Im depressed/anxious/nervous of school, i get called a devastation by all the kids and i get laughed at. Im in year 9...

school trip

so there's this school trip everyone wants to gogo on that's coming up soon but it's going to a theme park and going ...

all of my teachers hate me

Dear sam, all of my teachers hate me.  They always shout at me for nothing.  One of them even said the t*ss word to m...

Scared of going to school!

Dear Sam,So today, I actually faked sick so I could stay off and didn't get any sleep last night because I was worryi...

Back to school

Going back to school after a holiday is horrible not because of school but because I can't be myself anymore the whol...