Thank you all so much for your advice and hugs. It really does mean alot to me.

Cricket, we do have a Big Brother's program here. Thanks for the idea. Brandon does have several male role models for him in his life. And several that he can talk to. He just chooses not to. KWIM.

Vicky, that sounds like a great book. I will have to keep an eye out for it. Thanks for your advice too.

Trish, Brandon has seen a counsellor at school and also a child psychologist, each come up with different things. One says he is suffering with depression and anxiety, the other says he's just being a teenager....

Do you ever feel like just putting things in the "too hard basket" and coming back to it later, or getting someone else to solve it for you ? That's the way I feel most days lately. Only I know that I can't do it.