Dear User34:

“I also communicated with his .. family about this… I was mainly trying to understand what was happening, and we were mainly discussing how we could make the situation better for him”-

– meaning that you and his parents, outside his presence,  discussed how to  help him, as a team?

If so, were the discussions done in secret, or did he know about those?

I am asking this because this may be a very problematic issue: a big part of his depression may be because he was living with his parents, and if you teamed up with his parents, then you became part of the Problem for him, not part of a solution, for him.

anita