[vexvelour]

Somewhat of the same situation happened to me that happened to your friend. I lost my mom my senior year of high school, went off to college and started drowning my problems. I dropped out of school after a year and was really depressed and just drank/smoked myself retarded every night.

I am not proud to say that I finally hit rock bottom mentally. Once this happened I realized that this CANNOT go on if I'm going to do anything with myself. I was going to see a psycologist or a counselor, but decided that I was strong enough to get through it. I picked my ass up off the ground and I'm back in school and in full fuctioning order.

The point is that for some people suffering through these very hard times, sometimes you just have to let them realize it themselves. It hurts, I'm sure, to watch it happen, but if you don't cut off ties with him I'm sure he'll come around. If you really think that this is super-serious perhaps you should speak with his Dad and explain the situation.