i suppose what he needs is to talk to people in his situation, he needs advice from people with the same problems and how they resolved the situation and how it worked out for them. he will nee your support, but there is really not much you can tell him without truly knowing what he is going through.
maybe he should try to look for groups or forums or chat on the internet to gather some information, maybe make some connections.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
