What you're thinking of doing is called "repressing" I am a represser, and I do not suggest you do this. It causes a great deal of stress and headaches depending on your problems. It also causes break downs, because you just end up storing so much inside you get depressed, and just one day explode into tears over the smallest thing. It's terrible. My suggestion would be to keep in contact with your brother, E-mail, Msn, Text, Phone, Pen pal even. I'm sure your friends wouldn't mind if you came to them every once in awhile, and there's also always this guild, or a live journal.