Hi
My son who is 29 is currently on the sick the Dr says its Social anxiety but the symptoms fit more for depression. When Jamie was a senior school he was bullied by his so called best friends he has low self esteem any of the relationships he has had he as met online and they have all turned out terrible and messed with his head and he s always attracted to people with baggage or problems which they unload onto him. He is on sertraline he has trouble sleeping some days he doesn't leave his room or even get dressed his personal hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. earlier this year I was really worried about him he was posting all these things on Facebook about how the world would be better off without him and he s done with this world and he would just go off. One of his friends who ironic enough was one of the lads who use to bully him even came around to see me to see if d seen what he had been posting and they were really concerned one night got really bad one of his friends was telling him he needed to go to the hospital he was that low and wanted to end it all he ended up ringing our local mental health crisis team at 2 in the morning he felt better after he spoke to them. He is under open minds. He is broken and I don't know how to mend him. he got a job last week to start Wednesday which I was a bit dubious he went to the induction Tuesday he was fine or so I though I got a message from him saying that he couldn't start work his head wasn't in the right place. He left his last job through the same reason he couldn't pretend he was happy and smiley when he wasn't and they picked on him a bit as well an all women environment .I sometime feel guilty that it may be my fault that he is like he is I have a older son who is Autistic he s 31 now and when Jamie was younger I feel he didn't get the attention he should because of my other son took all my energy and time up even though he wasn't diagnosed till he was 18 but he was statemented as special needs and since his diagnosis his childhood now makes sense to me.my son doesn't have friends because he doesn't socialise and even my other sons will say to me he wants to sort his self out and get a grip and snap out of it .They don't know what's going on in his head . He had his Atos Assessment yesterday and he s been here before they said he was fit for work but he s no better now than he was then. If they throw him off he will have to go find work which I know he cant mentally do. How can I help him? He wants to get out there but he just cant .I'm just pleased because of his financial situation he lives at home with us