Mast...sorry you are feeling so down...

I half laughed when you said your friend was partially clueless when he suggested you talk to a woman... I felt/feel that way too about talking to a woman about stuff but when I did talk honestly to two people here on PC (through pm) I did find that some stuff that I felt horrible about myself for... I found out others have had similar issues and maybe I wasn't so "strange" after all. It didn't make my "issues" go away but gave me a different perspective about it....

so maybe it wasnt so clueless after all?