Have friend who has this 19yo son who basically sits in his room all day and night, is awake at night and sleeps during the day, texts his mother demands of what to buy, only finished highschool because it was a private school who would make a lot of exceptions to allow him to pass his exams /this is not in the UK/. Started uni but basically stopped going in after a week.
Have you heard of any stories or strategies that have actually worked for anyone in such situation?
Backstory. There is history of mental issues in the family. Father claimed himself a trans when son was a young to mid teen and lives now as a woman, separately from mother and son. Is resentful of paying child maintance despite high earning and sending threatening messages to the son. Mother says she experienced worse from the husband while living still together. Various forms of abuse from what I understand. Mother herself diagnosed with personality disorders. Son is a big hygiene and clean freak, diagnosed with OCD. Having him hospitalised as a last attempt to wake him up didnt help much.
His life has been very messed up by his parents own mental health issues in my view. His psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse dont seem to make too much of a difference. Wont engage in therapy. Or anything really apart from gaming and computers. I guess he may not be a typical hikikomori, I dont know.