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[quote=Anonymous]Thankfully, I have no personal experience of this and I am not any sort of medical expert. Friends facing this issue have found this organization helpful. https://www.nami.org/ 
Assuming you aren't a troll, I would call into the organization and explain your concerns and ask for advice on how to proceed.

I would also ask your son to waive FERPA-- or whatever the right law is --rights so you have access to his records at the student health center on campus. See if you can get him to give you a power of attorney to act on his behalf if he is incapacitated.You don't have to say you're worried about his mental capacity; just say that you want to be able to make decision for him should he be in an accident and unconscious and not able to make his own decisions.

A former friend's daughter is bipolar. It surfaced her junior year in high school. She got it under control and went off to a top LAC. The night before Christmas vacation her  sophomore year my friend got a call from the director of health services. The daughter was refusing to take her meds after being compliant for a long time and the campus shrink was worried that she was entering a manic phase. He gave her parents a "heads up" so they could be aware of the situation. My understanding is that the daughter had signed something that let the doctor do that. It's a long time ago now, so I am not sure it still works the same way, but it was helpful to them back then, so you might check out if that's possible.[/quote]

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