The Hug Page

The Hug Page is here. Because, whoever we are, we still need hugs. This is still the best place to come if you’re feeling sad and need a hug from BlogClan…

Fading Echoes

[image description: gif of a brown bear sitting down and raising its arms with a smile and blushing cheeks. “FREE BEAR HUGS” is written at the top with a red arrow pointing down at the bear.]

(Sh! This is a new Hug Page. You can find the old one here)

If you feel unsafe in your situation, please call one of the following hotlines or talk to an adult that you trust:

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Sexual assault US: 1-800-656-4673
National runaway hotlines US: 1-800-786-2929 (call), Text 66008 (text)
Child abuse hotline US: 1-800-422-4453 (call), Text 1-800-422-4453 (text)
National alliance on mental illness US: 1-800-950-6264
BullyingCanada: (877) 352-4497 (call or text), [email protected] (email)
Trevor project (LGBTQ+): 1-866-488-7386 (call), Text START to 678678 (text)
Trans lifeline US: 1-877-565-8860
Trans lifeline Canada: 1-877-330-6366
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 (call), Text CONNECT to 686868 (text), click for live chat
Crisis Text Line US: Text HOME to 741741 
Crisis Text Line Canada: Text HOME to 686868
Crisis Text Line UK: Text SHOUT to 85258
Anxiety UK Infoline (Telephone): 03444 775 774
Anxiety UK Infoline (Text): 07537 416 905
Childline UK: 0800 1111
Samaritans UK Helpline: 116 123
Samaritans UK Charity Email: [email protected]
No Panic UK (Charity that offers support for panic attacks and OCD): 0844 967 4848
Beat UK (For eating disorders): 0808 801 0677 (adults) or 0808 801 0711 (for under-18s)
LGBT Foundation UK Helpline: 0345 3 30 30 30
Switchboard LGBT+ UK Helpline: 0300 330 0630
Self Injury Helpline UK: 0808 800 8088
Mind (UK Mental Health Charity) Infoline: 0300 123 3393
Crisis Connections Teen Link (anonymous and confidential; USA): 866-833-6546
Australian Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800
QLife (AU LGBTQ+) 1800 184 527
Butterfly Foundation (AU Eating Disorders) 1800 33 4673
1800RESPECT (AU Domestic Violence and Abuse) 1800 737 732
Black Dog Institute (AU Mental Health) (02) 9382 4530
Scope Helpline UK (People with disabilities): 0808 800 3333
SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) Information Service: 0141 530 1000
Support In Mind Scotland: 0131 662 4359
The Mix UK Helpline: 0808 808 4994
Bi-Polar UK: 0333 323 3880
Saneline UK: 0300 304 7000
Mermaids UK (Support for transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse people up to 18): 0808 801 0400
YoungMinds UK (Mental Health Support): 0808 802 5544
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) UK: 0800 58 58 58
Mencap UK (Learning Disabilities): 0808 808 1111
Samaritans Welsh Language Line UK: 0808 164 0123
BEAT UK (Wales): 0808 801 0433
Stonewall UK (LQBTQIA+): 0800 050 2020
Hope Again UK (Bereavement support for young people; also available in Welsh): 0808 808 1677
Stop Hate UK (Hate Crimes): 0808 801 0576 (Phone); 07717 989025 (textline)
Victim Support UK: 0808 168 9111
Runaway Helpline UK: 116 000 (Phone or Text)

International suicide hotlines
Some countries have multiple hotlines. Those numbers have been separated by semi-colons and clarification on region and/or organization has been put in parentheses where applicable.
Argentina Suicide Hotline: 902 500 002
Australia: 13 11 14; 08 93 88 2500 (Youth Suicide Prevention)
Chile Suicide Hotline: (00 56 42) 22 12 00
China (People’s Republic of China): 0800-810-1117 (Beijing); +852 28 960 000 (Hong Kong)
Argentina: +5402234930430
Austria: 017133374
Belgium: 106
Bosnia & Herzegovina: 080 05 03 05
Botswana: 3911270
Brazil: 212339191; 55 11 31514109; (91) 3223-0074
Bulgaria: 0035 9249 17 223
Canada: 1-866-531-2600; 5147234000 (Montreal); 18662773553 (outside Montreal)
Croatia: 014833888
Denmark: +4570201201
Ecuador Suicide Hotline: (593) 2 6000 477
Egypt: 7621602
Finland: 010 195 202
France: 0145394000
Germany: 08001810771; 0800 111 0 111
Hong Kong: +852 2382 0000
Hungary: 116123
Iceland: 1717
India: 8888817666; 91-22-27546669
Iran: 1480
Ireland: +4408457909090
Italy: 800860022
Japan: 81 (0) 3 5286 9090 (Tokyo)
Mexico: 5255102550; 9453777
New Zealand: 0508828865
The Netherlands: 113
Norway: +4781533300
Philippines: 028969191
Poland: 5270000
Russia: 0078202577577; (495) 625 3101
Spain: 914590050
South Africa: 0514445691; 0800 12 13 14
Sweden: 46317112400
Switzerland: 143
United Kingdom: 08457909090; 08006895652 (National Suicide Prevention Helpline); 0800 068 4141 (Papyrus HOPELINEUK)
USA: 18002738255
Venezuela Suicide Hotline: 0241-8433308

If you know other hotlines that provide support that are not on this list, feel free to contact a BlogTeam member to add it to this list.

Regarding replies that mention or are about religion: Generally, religion should be avoided when replying to other people to give them hugs, such as stating that you will be praying for them. However, exceptions will be made if the person asking for hugs is asking for prayers from people who practice the same religion as them or if they are open about what religion they practice. Otherwise, people who do not practice the same religion or do not practice any religion should steer clear of providing religion-related comfort if they don’t know if another BlogClanner practices a specific religion.

A note from BlogTeam: From now on, we will no longer moderate comments on the Hug Page that go into specific detail about events. Instead, commenters will post in a vague manner, such as “I’m having a bad day, I could really use some hugs”, and other BlogClanners are welcome to provide comfort and support. This change is not because of any specific event or person, but because it is extremely difficult to mitigate questionable comments and determine what parts of certain comments are suitable to moderate, as well as making sure that replies with advice are in no way harmful to the original poster or others. If you ever feel like you need advice about a serious situation, you are welcome to reach out to BlogTeam, because your health and safety is our top priority. However, no one on BlogTeam is or has ever been a mental health professional in any way, and all we can do is provide advice. We implore you to always reach out to a trusted adult or hotline (listed above) about a situation that worries you. You are still welcome to come to the Hug Page if you need any hugs or comfort from your BlogClan peers, but the cause of your distress can no longer be explained——no matter the situation. Thank you so much for understanding <3

81,424 comments

  • Hey. I was gone for a while… A lot happened.
    This might be a rant so get comfortable. o_o

    I recently joined a site. I was threatened by a random person on it. Fun.
    I got a wifi router (the only good thing)
    My mom was engaged…

    Sssooooo yyyeeeaaahhhh…. Im back. O.O lovely.

  • Hello, guys. I am really freaking depressed because I never see my mom except for five minutes in the morning and my dad is really sick and I AM SO TIRED OF LIFE.

    • I have had the same experience but worse my dad was on a business trip so I could not see him AT ALL and my mom was working and I didn’t get to see her apart from the morning and some times I could not see her at all because she left early in the morning and my grandparents had to drive for four hours to baby sit me and my brother it sucked!! You will survive! -Fro❤️️

  • Does anyone have any advice on how to stop worrying? I’ve been worrying about everything lately, and I can’t seem to calm myself.

  • So this is going to be a very long and stupid rant that I really need to get out. Here we go.
    So there is this really mean teacher ( Lets call her ms. Foxheart) at my school who works with kids who need help in reading, she is also our ‘lunch moderater’ (basically she goes around yelling at kids who are talking… during lunch why is that a problem?) anyway I’m a patrol in the library at my school which means I put away books and make posters stuff like that. I LOVE WORKING AT THE LIBRARY! But today at lunch ms. Foxheart told me all the library patrols are getting fired and we should go ask the head of the patrols mr. Bearclaw ( Our PE instructer) for different patrolling areas. She didn’t tell me why, and told us the only day the other librarian at the library wasn’t there. I waited outside mr. Bearclaws office and he told me he basically didn’t care and I should do what ms. Foxheart say’s! On top of that I hurt a classmate that I really respect and I feel really bad about it but can’t tell her. I’ve had an awful day and I’m afraid it will turn into an awful rest of the school year. I am really sad and nervous and need a lt of help. My moms in New York and my dad picks me up from school pretty late and I don’t want to disturb him with my baby-ish rants. I really need some advice

    • Foxheart is actually canon 😛

      It’s not babyish! Talk to your dad, he’ll probably be able to help. Talk to your librarian or the principal or someone else more friendly about the library patrol situation. If anything, they’ll be able to tell you why the library patrol was canceled. *huggles*

    • *hugs* I hope your day doesn’t escalate into the rest of the year. I’d try asking the principal what’s going on. When will your mom come back from New York? I don’t have anything else, sorry Starling.

      • yeah, its not that bad she comes back on friday, but I usually feel more comfortable telling her stuff like that.

    • *huggles* He’s your father, I’m sure he’ll listen. It’s not baby-ish. You could always ask someone kind who canceled library patrol. Also, you could apologize to the person, since you didn’t mean it and you feel bad. Remember, one bad day doesn’t mean a bad year. <3

    • Your rants aren’t baby-ish or ridiculous. If you’re feeling upset, please don’t worry about ranting!

      I’m super sorry you had a bad day at school *hugs*. Maybe you could talk to the classmate who you hurt? And maybe you can speak to the librarians about why the library patrol is ending? They might at least be able to tell you why it’s ending. *hugs*

  • I’m really sorry, I just realized that I’ve forgotten about RTOTDs for about a week I believe. Again, sorry about that, I will try to be more active on the Hug Page now! Anyways, I’ll just post an inspirational quote every day from now on. For those of you going through tough times, you can get through this!!! You are strong, you are brave, you are so amazing!!! If you ever need to talk about it, we’ll always be here for you *hugs infinite times* <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

    Here's today's quote, one of my favorites:
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLX1E1jUwAAyWbY.jpg

    Have a lovely day! 😀

  • can i rant about school a bit

    How on earth am I supposed to study for examinations without my Health and Science textbooks? Ugh. And the teachers are just way too boring and I don’t feel challenged enough at school in most subjects 🙁 There’s also the teeny tiny matter of sorting the trash which nobody else will do and… y’know. Not a good school year.

    • *huggles* Aw, Rainy, I’m sorry! Are you in advanced classes? If you aren’t, you might feel more challenged in those. If you are, you could always request to move up a grade. Ask for more challenging work. Etc.

      • Thanks, Silv, but I can’t. In the school system here (as in islandwide government school system) we can’t move up or stay back a grade, and the teachers decide what we get and what we don’t. The only thing I can do is to do the exercises out of the textbooks at home, but I’m on a tighter schedule this year.

    • Yikes! Can you take the textbooks home? Just try and concentrate on doing the best you can. It’ll be over before you know it. *huggles*

  • We have a dog named Pumpkin. We adopted her and she has a hurt leg, don’t know what happened to it, perhaps she got hit by a car or something like that. Anyway, she’s a real sweetheart, everybody, including myself, fell in love with her. But she has some fierce teeth, and she shows them whenever we get too close to her hurt leg. My sister went into my room, where Pumpkin was sleeping, I was petting her, when my sister started to roughhouse with me. And not in a playful way, She was mad at me, for whatever reason. She almost always is. She’s younger though, only by a year. Defending myself, I pushed her on the bed, and the push sent her a little too close to Pumpkin. Pumpkin showed her teeth and barked in a warning way at her. She got realy afraid and had tears in her eyes.

    This kind of thing happened to me once before, so I understood exactly what was going on. When it happened to me, I was in the bed, silently weeping at the shock of it all, when my sister came in and said in a mean-tease way, “Are you crying?” I closed my eyes and didn’t answer. She felt no sympathy. so she continued mocking me. Until our parents came in and told her to get to bed.

    This just happened to her, and our parents came rushing in. To help her little sweet soul, BAH. She got mad at me even more for pushing her into Pumpkin.

    My sister has been bullying me for years now, and she acts like the older sister when she’s not. She teases me about my strengths, puting me down when I feel good about myself. She mocks me for being bad at math and logic, and I’m tired of it all. I’m very weak and I cannot stand up for myself. I have this thing where I put myself into other’s shoes and see what they are feeling in the situations. But I feel like I’ve done that enough. I feel like I should take care of myself in the thing that happened with Pumpkin. Which is why I feel almost no sympathy for her. I sucked it all up. And I feel like she deserves it for doing all those mean things to me.

    Another thing: I am really scared, too scared to go to school and my belly feels funny and I’m nervous I’m going to vomit. Thanks for reading my rant.

    • I’m SO sorry! I don’t know anyone like that, but I know one thing. You are the only one that knows about what is happening, so either you need to try and be brave and stand up to your sister, or you need to tell your parents or an adult that will understand. *huggles* -Moon

    • You should talk to your parents about what’s happening with your sister. They need to know that you feel bullied because of her. And if they won’t listen you should tell a guidance counselor. You should also talk to your guidance counselor regardless and tell her that going to school makes you really nervous and maybe they can help with that. Also, I think you should talk to a vet about Pumpkin. It’s not good that she gets so aggressive about her leg. Also keep in mind that she might have been abused in her old home and that’s how she was hurt. That would explain why she’s so nervous when people get close to her because she thinks she might get hit again. Just hang in there and hopefully things will get better.

    • *hugs* Try talking to your parents. It’s not okay for her to do that. When she’s bullying you, ignore her. Don’t show that you’re upset. If you don’t react, she might get bored and giving teasing. I hope you’re feeling better, Snowbreeze. <3

    • Talk to your parents about how your sister treats you, and tell her you don’t appreciate it. Likely she’s either jealous of you or just wants attention. Ignore her and spend your energy doing things that make you happy. *huggles*

    • ^hugglez^
      Talk with your sister and/or parents. Don’t be like “u suck!!!!!!111” because that will get you nowhere. Explain to them why you feel mad, and tell your sister to stop mocking you because it hurts your feelings. Don’t be afraid to report to your parents about your sister’s behavior. And remember, BlogClan is always here for you.

    • Awww! I totally understand, I’ve felt the same way once before and I’m currently feeling like that now 😛 Honestly, all I can say is accept that these feelings are happening — it’s completely natural — and it’s difficult to get over (but one day you will), and just enjoy your current friendships and/or relationships ^^

    • I’ve only been a teenager for a few days but I’ve had a crush before and the most I can say is just to deal with it. It’s completely natural. It will come to pass. Don’t try to repress your feelings and love life as it is.

    • That’s okay! It feels really weird, but just keep going about your day and let your heart go, as long as it doesn’t start affecting your grades or social life (in a bad way) or anything. It’ll probably go away in a few years at worst. 🙂

  • I’m really frustrated right now so I just need to blow off some steam. So next week is the regional mock trial competition and there are about 30 teams entering. The top 16 will advance to a “play-off” the next day where the top 8 advance to the state competition. But on the same day as the play-off is a honor band that me and a couple other people in the group got chosen for. So I was talking to my friends who have also been chosen to go to the honor band and are in mock trial and I said I really think we have a good chance of moving on and was really excited about it. Then one of them said “well that makes one of us.” So I asked her what she meant and she told me she didn’t want to move on and would rather go to the honor band. My other friend also agreed with her. I know music is really important to them so I said “That’s ok but you guys are still going to really try right?” And they said they were definitely going to so I thought that was the end of it. But today we were supposed to have a meeting during lunch and they didn’t show up so I asked them where they were and one of them just rolled her eyes and said “It’s not like we’re moving on anyway and why would we want to go to something that’s just going to fail anyways.” Needless to say I was pretty frustrated because I have worked so hard this season and I have the past five years but I’ve never got to move on past regionals and the year I finally feel like my team has a really good shot and then they just completely give up. I want to go to the honor band too but I’m not going to sacrifice the hard work my team and I have done just to go. I’m just really frustrated right now so yeah that’s about it.

    • Aww, I’m really sorry. Maybe talk to the person in charge of honor band and ask them about moving it, and talk to your friends about how you feel. Good luck! *huggles*