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He's doing a five-year-course that he picked when he was eighteen, and a year or so ago decided he didn't want a career in, but decided to stick it out anyway til the end of college. It's a hugely intense course with an insane amount of work that takes up most of his time.

Last year he failed an exam and had to repeat a year - so now he's in a new year with classmates he doesn't know very well and he admitted to me the other night how lonely he is, which breaks me heart. He hates doing this course that he's no longer passionate about but he's determined to stick it out until 2015.

He's so unhappy and I hate it. He's under a lot of stress to try and pass all his Christmas exams and feels guilty when he's not studying - he can't relax when he's not working. Between our respective college courses and my job we have hardly any time to see each other and I don't know how to be there for him. He won't even take the night off study on his birthday next week. :/

This week his famiy were away so we got a little extra time together and it was so good to see him relax for a while, but I hate hearing about how lonely he is and how much stress he's under. Is there anything I can do to help him??