My friend had a facebook complete meltdown.

This is a complete 100% true story. I had to write it out as soon as I got home. Sorry for the long post.<br><br><br><br>My friend (who I won't name) is a great guy. We've been friends since senior year of high school. He's not an internet asshole but he does spend a lot of time online, he's a huge channer, and he has a very dark sense of humor that sometimes lands him in trouble. He's your average college drop out working at gamestop. He lives with his mom and spends a lot of time alone at home with his computer. He's not some asshole neckbeard loser, he's actually a very nice and funny guy who just hasn't got his shit together. He's also very set in his ways and what he likes, he's not very open to change.<br><br><br>A few months ago, he was in a complete funk. He was depressed, he had a few years back had a long term relationship that ended very ugly, his dad was in some trouble with the law, his mom was complete stage mom, he had dropped out of college, etc etc. He was just in a general funk for the past couple of years. He stopped going out, stopped hanging out with our friends, stopped playing video games, stopped playing DnD, stopped everything. He just did nothing anymore. About two months ago, he went on a massive bender. complete mental breakdown. he was showing up high to work, getting in trouble, breaking all sorts of rules, doing a lot of drugs, drinking a lot, fucking random girls, just going crazy. His mom got so worried she started going with him to therapy and to her complete surprise he started improving. He stopped doing drugs and drinking, he started hanging out with us, he started playing games, he started being his funny self again. Everything was looking so much better for him. <br><br><br>Now, a couple of weeks ago, he had a small slip up. He got into some trouble at work, and his ex went out with her new bf to a party he was at. It really bothered him and he ended up going home that night and doing a little bit of coke. He thought it would be fine, he had had it thousands of times before. But it wasn't. He had a massive panic attack in response to a number of things. He thought he was going to die, he thought he was going crazy, he thought he was relapsing. He had a complete panic attack and he started freaking out. When he started to cool down, he went on facebook and started to post. He got on a complete roll, he posted a lot. he was posting about his mental health, about his drug use, his battles with depression, his weakness and insecurities. He was posting about all his family drama, about his brother, his mom his dad. He was just posting complete mental nonsense. He wrote about how much he hated himself, how much he hated drug dealers, how much he hated himself for fucking up so many times.<br><br><br>A couple days went by, complete silence. He wasn't trying to delete anything, he wasn't trying to act like it hadn't happened, he just wasn't doing anything. A few of his friends reached out to him, but he didn't want to hear it. yesterday he got on facebook and started deleting. he started by deleting his posts, and then he just started unfriending people left and right. he started deleting his friends and family. he went extreme. He has deleted almost everyone. He's unfriended his mom, his siblings, he's unfriended complete strangers. He went from almost a thousand friends to less than 50. he had gone almost extreme. He had complete mental breakdown. we've been trying to reach out to him, but he's not answering anyone. he's just gone complete hermit. he lives a hermit life anyway, but now he's just going extreme. our mutual friends are freaking out. he's causing a lot of drama trying to unfriend his family. we're complete worried about him. we have no idea what we're going to do. our friends are talking about committing him, but we don't know if that's the right choice. our friends are talking about prosecuting him for harassment and slander (he did say some pretty nasty things). we're worried about him and we have no idea how to reach him or how to help him. He has a history of mental breakdowns and committing him will hurt him even worse. we don't know what to do. <br><br>I just wanted to write this out.