I decided to come on here and ask a question on behalf on my great friend, who has been going through depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues, related to her estranged son.

My friend's son got into legal issues and had gone through years of court appearances. This took a psychological toll on him, while he refused treatment and antidepressant medications. After the case was dismissed, which cost his mother (my friend) thousands of dollars, sleepless nights, and a plethora of other issues, which any mother would face in her position, her son dropped off the face of the earth and stopped communicating with her and his grandmother. For the past year, or even longer he keeps avoiding her, wants to have nothing to do with her, doesn't reply to her texts, and doesn't pick up her calls.

Recently she showed me some of the emails they have exchanged over the past year (rare communication between them), and in those emails he keeps blaming her for mistreating him her entire life. Keeps telling her that she has made his entire life miserable, and impossible. One of the emails he sent, he requested for her to list 10 things she has done to mistreat him in her life. He told her that he was contemplating running away from home when he was 5. He told her that she will only talk to him if she starts seeing a psychiatrist/psychologist, and gets better. He also wrote to her that if she were to die "tomorrow" he would not care.

She gave him the list of 10 things, which was not good enough. She got him a doctor's note that said she had been seeing a psychiatrist for half a year - he keeps making more demands.

I don't know her son. I have never seen him, but It's my personal opinion that she has no need for psychiatric help. To me her son sounds like he has had a psychiatric breakdown with sadistic tendencies towards him mother and grandmother.

My friend is depressed, upset, and doesn't know what to do. She has always treated her only son with lots of love and care. She bought him expensive cars, kept him in her home until he was 28, and generally has spoiled him rotten. Now, he is calling her Hitler and wants to have nothing to do with her. Some doctors call this Family Estrangement, some call him a Sadist, and some a Psychopath. They feel that his treatment of her is a result of his mental breakdown during his legal issues. She has only one question - when is he going to get better, and come back into my life. Without my won, the life is not worth living.

So, I ask you, folks, can any of you offer any opinions on what might have happened to him, and most importantly - will he ever get over his mental condition and his estranged resentment towards his mother? Will he ever try to reconnect and rekindle their relationship? He seems to be having great relationships with EVERYONE in his life, except for her.

What are your thoughts?