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Hi everybody,

For many years our "Alternatives" thread has been one of the most popular on the site, and it has given many people ideas for combating anything from self harm to addictions.

We have now updated and expanded this list to bring you the Alternatives and Coping Methods resource, which lists hundreds of different ideas to help you get through...

TeenHelp Newsletter #94 - January 20th 2018 - http://www.teenhelp.org

Welcome to the TeenHelp Newsletter! Our Newsletter contains a lot of useful information about our current work, including updates to our site and services, new resources, details of upcoming events, short bits of advice, interesting links and more!

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TeenHelp News

TeenHelp regularly makes changes to its site and services....

i don't even know how many times i have posted with the words "i hate my breasts".
it has been true since i was twelve and it will still be true tomorrow.

everyone thinks it's a vanity problem. or that i want to be a hoe and get more attention from guys. i don't want to come off as bragging, but i already do get attention. i'm pretty sure anything with a hole in it gets male attention. that's not the problem and i don't think whether i'm comfortable with my chest or...

I finished school on the fourteenth of December. I know that wasn't that long ago but I am already in a standstill.

I applied for three jobs. I know two of them were out of my league, but I worked at the company before so I was hoping I'd get a leg up. The other was the YMCA in my city as a front-desk person about a week or two ago and I haven't gotten a call back.

I don't know where else to apply. The local health departments around here aren't hiring, the nonprofits...

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We want you to share all your ideas and suggestions with us so we can make TeenHelp better, so we are currently doing a survey to try and get some information from you. There are some specific questions on things that we're interested to learn, but please share anything and everything you would like to tell us. All of this information will feed into what we do in 2018 to better help you. The survey will be...

for awhile i didn't feel like i was getting much out of this forum, so i looked for other emotional support forums. i found one that i really liked, it was really clean and easy to use, but it was kind of a free for all. it wasn't heavily moderated like TH, but i didn't care at the time.

on that forum i made a post talking about the back and forth mentality i had with my abusive relationship, and how i was struggling so much with knowing he was a terribly toxic person to have...

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Hello everyone,

It's that time of the year when I am pleased to announce our "Winter Awards", which recognise and reward many different kinds of contributions to TeenHelp.

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Volunteer Of The Year

I am extremely pleased to issue this year's Volunteer Of The Year Award to Chess (Narrative.)

Chess has...

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For me personally this is the worst time of year. This is because at this time of year you have to be greatful for everything because if you are not greatful you are a horible person who does not deserve anything. But the people that are not thought about are the ones who have had a crap year, the ones who actually don't have anything to be greatful for because they would rather be dead. These are the people who are missed out because nobody thinks about them.

For me today I have...

Sometimes we get discouraged,
Sometimes we feel like a failure,
That we aren't good enough
For anyone, or that we don't
Have any purpose in the world,
That lack and limitations
Do exist.

Thoughts like these
We need to quit thinking,
For if we continually get emotionally involved
With these kinds of thoughts,
They will become the reality
That we don't want.

And we wonder why
We keep creating...