Have you ever called Childline?

If so what was it like and was it helpful?

If you need help, then call it. It is anonymous and confidential.

I was always too scared to call them but they do an online live chat service which I found quite helpful.

I've called them before. A few times actually. It's completely confidential, they will only share what you tell them with someone else if they need to do so, like if you're in an unsafe situation, or have the potential to harm someone else or yourself. But basically they're just there to listen to you, and like talk you through things.

I’m too scared even for the online chat. I don’t believe it’s confidential

HI as someone who works for Childline. I want to reassure you that Childline is a completely confidential service and we only break confidentiality if we thought you were at real risk in terms of your safety well-being and there was a real threat this would happen. IE in terms of feeling suicidal if you said you had a specific plan and timescale and means to do it. Where possible we would try and work with you to come up with a safety plan if needs be. Obviously i can't comment on individual cases and it would entirely depend on your own situation. Where possible we would also tell you if we were concerned and were abut to break confidentiality.

I am an adult now but I had a really bad experience with Childline.

I was using their online chat when I was 18, I was at university and suffering very poor mental health (later diagnosed with BPD at age 19).
They hung up the online chat on me mid conversation, I was saying I was feeling very bad but I didn't give any kind of plan or anything or any signs of actual intent.

Anyway I was slightly annoyed that they just hung up on me for no reason and as I said I was feeling bad so I just went for a lie down in bed. Few hours later there is a knock at my door and two police officers showed up to my university accommodation.

Still to this day I have no idea what happened. Never used them again, not that I would have had much time to as I turned 19 shortly afterwards.

HI as someone who works for Childline. I want to reassure you that Childline is a completely confidential service and we only break confidentiality if we thought you were at real risk in terms of your safety well-being and there was a real threat this would happen. IE in terms of feeling suicidal if you said you had a specific plan and timescale and means to do it. Where possible we would try and work with you to come up with a safety plan if needs be. Obviously i can't comment on individual cases and it would entirely depend on your own situation. Where possible we would also tell you if we were concerned and were abut to break confidentiality.

I am an adult now but I had a really bad experience with Childline.

I was using their online chat when I was 18, I was at university and suffering very poor mental health (later diagnosed with BPD at age 19).
They hung up the online chat on me mid conversation, I was saying I was feeling very bad but I didn't give any kind of plan or anything or any signs of actual intent.

Anyway I was slightly annoyed that they just hung up on me for no reason and as I said I was feeling bad so I just went for a lie down in bed. Few hours later there is a knock at my door and two police officers showed up to my university accommodation.

Still to this day I have no idea what happened. Never used them again, not that I would have had much time to as I turned 19 shortly afterwards.