i'm sorry if this is too long, but simply do not read it if so. i've been learning at home since i was 15, due to problems at secondary school, i was sexually harassed by a group of boys in my year and at the same time i was being bullied, and the head teacher/principal refused to do anything about it...and basically didn't care, so i had no choice but to leave school and take my GCSEs at home. i'm now 17, and don't have a social life. my confidence in myself has been shattered; and i just don't know who i am anymore. i feel like life is not worth living, that i'm a waste of space, and that no-body except my parents and my brother like me for who i am. i've now done my GCSEs, but i'm doing my A-Levels from home, as all the local colleges in my area refuse to let me do more than one A-Level, whereas learning from home allows me to do 2 A-Levels. i really am trapped. i'm desperate to meet people my own age, and my old friends hardly know me anymore. i'm getting more and more upset as each day goes by, stuck at home with just my laptop and my mother for company. i really am on the verge of desparation. i hate living like this, and i can't focus on anything as it's always on my mind. i want to have a life again....please can someone, if anyone, advise me on how i can get myself back on track, and back out there, meeting new people? Thanks...