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writes:Hi everyone, looking for a little advice here. My boyfriend of a few months/friend of several years has a lot of general issues. I love him dearly and I'm sticking with him, I'd just like some advice on how to help him. He has mild anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders and I'm his first girlfriend, so the effects of those are heightened around me. He's going through a rough period of not being on great terms with his family and not having many close friends and I'm about the only one he talks to anymore. He's also having problems in school which I think relate to ADD but his mom (he's homeschooled) doesn't seem to think so. I know generally the kinds of things he needs - help with school, more friends, ways to have fun without me around 24/7, other people to talk to - but I'm not too sure how to go about helping him with these things. I'd love for him to talk to a therapist who helped me a lot in the past, but his family is short on money and I don't know if they could afford it. He's a great guy and the situation isn't as serious as it probably sounds, but I know that it could turn out badly, and I want him to be happier. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks!!
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reader, HollywoodGrace +, writes (15 December 2009):
Well first I wanted to say I greatly admire you for sticking with him. So many people are afraid of people who are even a little bit different and would leave him because of it and I think that sucks, but that's how people are now days. I would say if you have a large group of friends, introduce him to your friends. I'm really shy and I didn't have many friends before I met my ex boyfriend so his friends became my friends. Help him with school if you can. Help him study and help him with homework if he needs it, but don't do his work for him lol. You want him to feel like he's smart and capable of accomplishing things on his own too.
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