Questionable mental disorder in son
My son is 25 and lives with me. He was diagnosed 4 times as bipolar and twice as not having it. He is also an alcoholic. He has been to rehab for extended amounts of time. For a while he does okay. But he cannot keep a job because he either steals or is drunk. He steals my medicine knowing I have lupus and am just recently in remission from an incurable form of non Hodgkin's lymphoma( it just keeps coming back with no total cure) I do lock my meds up and hide them but he always manages to pilfer through everything until he finds it. When he is not drinking he is tolerable but when he is drinking ( with money he steals from me) even though I keep my purse locked up , he is extremely argumentative. He curses and screams and there is no reasoning with him. He thinks now that he has borderline personality disorder. I will say he has a lot of the symptoms and I do think he needs to be assessed for this. It is hard for me to tell what is caused by the alcohol and what's is not. I live by myself with him as his father left me after I was diagnoised with cancer and after having an affair. I don't know what to do or where to turn. Any meds they have put him on he refuses to take either completely or stops after a little while. I am to the point where I am afraid and have had to get an EPO on him. He was angry this evening and had been drinking again and slammed the door back and hit my hand hard. I just want to know if some of his problem is mentall illness or if its an addiction problem with really bad behavior.