I'm going to come from a different perspective than most of the others. You said he is 17. Could it be that he is suddenly overwhelmed by the prospect of becoming an adult and wants to regress to an age when he was safe, didn't have any responsibilities and someone else took care of him?
Along that line, has there been any major change if life either for him or for the family? For instance, is he about to graduate high school or start college? Is he moving out of the house soon? That sort of thing....
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