My 19 yr. old son was just diagnosed with bipolar last month. He's seeing a phychologist and just had his 1st appt. with his new psychiatrist the week before last. His pdoc upped his lithium to 300 mg. a day and gave him klonopin to help with the agitation. He was supposed to go for bloodwork on Sat. but couldn't find the script. He also missed a dose of lithium Friday morning.

To make a long story as short as I can, and I've got to let out a lot of details so I can do this, we had an arguement yesterday when I caught him smoking weed with one of his friends. I flipped, he flipped back and then last night he told me he's not going to any appointments this week and that he's stopping all prescribed meds. And, he wants nothing to do with me anymore.

Now, his live in girlfriend is calling me telling me that he's talking about suicide, doesn't deserve to live, is a failure and that he wants to end the pain for a lot of people by taking his life. He's planning to buy a Russian assault rifle that he's been wanting on Friday and he plans to sleep in his car because he doesn't want to kill himself in his uncle's house (he rents the 2nd floor apt.).

I have a call in to his psychologist and am waiting to hear back. My husband (who works in the same dept. as my son) called and said he's an absolute mess today.

How can I help him if he doesn't want anything to do with me? And if you have any questions that would help make this story clearer, please fire away. Just looking for help/advice. Don't worry about hurting my feelings if you want to tell me off for the way I handled this. You can't hurt me anymore than I'm already hurting. It's o.k. to be honest, as long as you truly want to help. Thanks!