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[quote=Anonymous]My freshman son is back from a full year of college in Oregon. (He came home for Christmas and spring break but he stayed there over the first part of the summer.) Last week he started saying things to me that sound like depression (I have depression so I know) and I talked with him a bit to try to establish a foundation of facts and trust. I nudged him to see a therapist but he said no. Yesterday he started saying things that sound more like bipolar and now I'm freaking out because that's completely out of my depth. He had *very* stable mental health the first 20 years of his life, didn't party in high school, and I suspect these symptoms have been triggered by substance use. One side of the family has depression genes and the other has addiction genes. I have read enough New York Times articles to know how terribly wrong this can go but I am a bit paralyzed at the moment. [b]If  you have expertise or first-hand experience with this,[/b] [b]please tell me what should I do[/b]? I don't want to rush things or give any hint that I'm freaking out, and also I don't want jump to a false diagnosis. Either way I need to have a plan in place before he goes back to school at the end of September. [/quote]

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