Here in Europe and/or in Norway I think that a "counsler" does not exist. Also in universities you are left alone.
I can understand how do you feel DV, when I had your same age I passed a lot of periods like yours, probably for the same reasons plus problems in my family.
I have to say that only after my period in the army I could have looked at the things happening around me in a different perspective and changed completely my friendship and the kind of people I used to meet. I don't know if it was good or bad, because I think that I constructed a barrier made of cynism around me, but it helped me a lot to find the way to live better, and even if the life I live today is not what I dreamed when I was a boy I am satisfied and I can say I'm living well with myself.
I'm not saying you've to enlist yourself in the "legion etranger", but I think you've to meet people of a different kind: if you frequent every damn day the people who cut you out of their lives your depression will grow.
I would tell how I left some of my old friends:
One saturday night we decided to go to eat a pizza in a restaurant very far from the town where we used to meet, and (as usual) we had to go there with my car. So we went there, eaten well and abundantly... And suddenly I decided that they were not the kind of people I like and I would not see them anymore... So I said : "Ohps, I forgot my wallett in the car, I will go to take it and be back in minutes...", then I went to the car and run away alone (and without paying the lunch). From that time I began to frequent a different kind of people.
I'm not saying that you have to be bastard-inside or cynic like me but when your feelings are not reciprocate to you, you are only loosing your time and probably you will fall deeper in your depression.
Anyway, apart from the probably useless words I wrote, you know that here you can have some help, I think that the fact that we are virtually anonymous (it's difficult that we will meet and in any case we will not live in the same context every day) is an advantage because one can wrote freely his/her thoughts and it could be very helpful.
I hope you'll fell better very soon.
For the rest, Hi GP! I made an error with the gallery configuration (as usual
), WheelChair said it to me or I never noticed the error
, Now it should be ok. In any case I'm waiting for the poll results in order to keep the new or the old gallery, you all decide.