Hey everyone, so this isn't really about me but I was hoping I could get some advice this might be a little long btw sorry. My boyfriend of about 2 years (I'm 18 he's 19) suffers from depression and anxiety, he has since way before we met. He has no friends apart from me, i'm the only person of our age he has regular contact with, he dropped out of college and is currently unemployed and he always tells me he feels like his life is going no where or that he'll be stuck doing menial labour jobs his whole life. I've tried to get him to spend time with my group of friends because they all really like him but his anxiety stops him from feeling comfortable and enjoying himself around them so he's told me he doesn't want to do that anymore.
About a year ago i convinced to go and get some help and he went to the doctor and they put him on anti-depressants and a waiting list for counselling. He hated being on the medication and didn't feel like it helped at all, and he had to wait about 7 months to be seen by a counsellor, which was ****. When he actually did get to see one he went to a couple appointments (which were like weeks apart and really short??) and basically said they weren't helping at all and so he asked the counsellor if he could have a different form of therapy like CBT or something. So they cancelled his appointents and said when they got back to him he'd have to go on another waiting list, but they never got back to him. He stopped taking his meds because he didn't see the point so now we're back to square one :/ What do you do when you actually seek out help and it doesn't work? is there any other places he can go to for help that isn't the NHS and isn't expensive?? I'm just not sure how to help him.
What's worse is that I'm moving across the country to go to uni in september and so we're gonna do long distance and I'm not sure how he's gonna cope because i'm like basically his only support system, what should i do??
Sorry about the length I just really need some advice