grieving angry teenage boy

[3littlefrogs]

Is there any sort of internet forum type of support around for teenagers?

My friend has sadly lost her dad recently. Her 17 year old son, who was very close to his grandad, is in a very bad way. He has refused counselling offered by the school, won't talk to his parents. My friend is trying to deal with her own grief, but very worried about her ds.

I wondered if he might find some sort of internet group helpful??

If anyone could suggest anything I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

Try here

Thanks so much for that. I will send the info to my friend and she can check it out, and maybe talk to some of her ds's friends and see if they can somehow suggest it to him. (If she suggests it he will refuse to look at it!)

I think the link seems to fit the bill especially with a teenage boy but I think that sometimes we just have to accept that boys and men for that matter are just NOT good at talking about their feelings, epecially teenage boys. Bottling up feelings is more their style. If he is going to talk to anyone it will be his mates, but probably in a very low key way. Your friend might just have to live with the fact that there is not a lot she can do to help her son get through this, but I'm sure he will, in time and in his own way. Does he have any female friends - they may be able coax him to talk. Maybe your friend could ask one of them to try to support him through this and NOT tell him that she has been approached by his mother!

Yes - we agreed that the female friends would be the best people to talk to him. It is just that he is going off the rails a bit, and he does need some way of letting it out.

Has anyone got any advice I can give my brother please? He lost his eldest son through suicide early in September, followed by his wife literally 2 weeks later as a result of cancer. So there's just him and his youngest boy now.

They are doing so very well, keeping busy with DIY work and college. But now the DIY work is nearly finished and my brother has bravely returned to work, and his boy is maybe not helping around the house as much as he could.

It's such a delicate and difficult subject. As his family, we are helping them constantly with visits, phone calls and messages of support, but we all live at least 40 miles away. My parents are very worried about them both.

Tips on how to get a grieving teenager to appreciate that his dad can't do everything would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Goodness tes, what a sad situation ☹️

You may want to start your own thread, someone will hopefully be along with advice x