How to support with 1st heart break?

[Damnyoureyes]

Family member with significant mh problems. (OCD dx, depression, anxiety)
Has a great job but lives a couple of hours away by train. Sick record is appalling.
Shares very expensive flat with girlfriend, barely affording to live between the two of them.

Girlfriend has dumped him. Doesn’t love him, feels like his carer, has no joy in life with him, they don’t do anything together. She has gone to her parents.
Probably all true. He is challenging. No kids, renting the flat, aged 22.
But poor bloke is heartbroken.
Is coming home to not be alone.

How to support him through this. So very sad for him.

Honestly, if his sickness record is already so poor at work, I’d be primarily worried about his risking losing his job — especially as it sounds as if he may struggle to get another — and trying to encourage him to keep working and keep busy.

Is he your son?

Perhaps it is better to go home and spend some time working on himself. Get the correct meds and go to some support groups.

He’s on meds, they work well, he’s doing good on them.
He has weekly private counselling which also helps.
Now though this curve ball. It could knock him off his steady perch in a spectacular way.