Imo what this game needs is a button on the side somewhere saying "Find bridge and jump...". Seriously, mother up and leaves, no contact for a year. Father up and leaves and the MC gets a "Have a home on the other side of the planet. Feel free to drop by". Through a message, through a friend, because the MC hasn't spoken to his father in months, either. The supposed best friend is anything but - he lies constantly, schemes behind our backs, doesn't tell us squat.
Oddly enough the title of the actual Best Friend should go to Danielle. She's manipulative, yeah, but she's on the level with us, tells us outright what she wants, shares what she knows, even if it could put her in deep shit. Her schemes are in your face, so we can back out, or at least tell her what we think, which is a lot more than what you can say about Damon. And she has our backs when things go sideways.
Everyone close to us (aside from Danielle) clearly knows stuff, but they deliberately hide it from us and dance around us going "Hey, you over it yet?", while the MC is clearly in deep depression. Abandoned by his family, beer bottles around the house, sleeping in till the afternoon, shouting from the rooftop "I want things back the way they used to be", full blown depression if there ever was one. Does he get professional help from people around him, like, I don't know, his BFF (who actively IS getting psych help on a regular basis)? No, everyone continues using him as an emotional crutch. Hell, even his schoolteacher, who outright asks him how are things, if you tell her "Yeah, things are really not that great" responds with something along the lines of "Don't worry, you'll get there".
Honestly, at this point the MC should either off himself, or go to Danielle, shout in her face "You're my best friend now" and bounce with her on a self-healing trip to India so they can take shrooms together or something.