>Thing is, I'm not her. She never understands and her "you-can-tell-me everything-you're-going-through" speech is a lie to me.

Oh, man, I hear you so much. Pick your feelings out of you, and then invalidate them. And the lark/hermit mood swings. I'm just sorry my husband has to deal with them. I second trying to get some help at school, though I found it was not helpful for me at my school. There is only really group counseling, and that was useless in my case.