dear Hilary, I want to say to you thank you for posting your comment, because I am really so sorry that your brother has passed away, and now unfortunately you are left to try and cope with this, plus the thought of your parents leaving you within a week or so, how lonely you must feel, but coming off your antidepressants 6 weeks ago may not help you to try and give the support that you really need, because there are so are many things that happen during our life and when we are incapable of coping with these then we need medical help.
I'm not saying that everybody can naturally handle the loss of someone close to them, that's impossible it can't be done, but being on medication can give you that little bit of help to grieve.
You must love your parents so much as they do with you, they are the part of your life that will always love you, and when they do go back to England, you're not losing them, they will be there to contact you and now a days this can be done in many ways, much different than it was years ago, although you might have to teach them a thing thing or two, so just because they are over the other side of the world, you can have them in your loungroom, to ring, to skype.
All we want is to try and get you settled over here in a new environment to make friends like you have on this site. Geoff. x
