DH manages a public facility type place. A young man (NT as far as DH is aware - he would have filled in paperwork and it would likely have been on this if he wasn’t) has recently started attending with his older girlfriend (who has Aspergers - possibly relevant).
Young man turned up yesterday and was due to meet his girlfriend and she didn’t turn up. Man’s phone was dead so DH offered to charge it whilst he waited. Man was sitting in a waiting area and started to have what I can only describe as a complete meltdown. Punching things, headbutting things, scratching at himself, hyperventilating etc. Eventually someone got hold of the girlfriend and she turned up and he started to calm down. Man explained that this had happened before and he had been asked to stop going to college because of it. He’s never had any help and has no family support. He’s clearly very emotionally dependent upon the girlfriend.
DH tried to convince him to get help and has printed off some information about local mental health services for him for next time he sees him. He sounds very vulnerable to me and I think he needs to escalate this. I work in healthcare and it has always been drummed into me that safeguarding is everybody’s business so I’m possibly prone to being over cautious.
AIBU?