Help!! we have a 22 year old son who has had a chronic illness (crohns) since age 13. He finished high school and 2 years of college. Had surgery to remove 2 feet of small bowel at age 18. He is living at home again after having been off school for the past year and a half because of illness. He's feeling physically better now, but very angry since moving home in august. We are encouraging him to finish school at his own pace: he hates living at home with us. He recently got so angry and violent, spitting that we left him at a friends house for a week. Since then, he has been calmer but still very angry. Nothing I say or do is right. Simply asking if he still likes broccoli results in an overreaction of epic proportions. I listened to an hour long show about BPD yesterday on Doctor radio, plus am a psych nurse myself. Hubby wants to be more stern re getting back to school. We are in family therapy, son in individual therapy, plus meds. Son panics, gets riled up over what seems to me to be small things, but......any thoughts of any kind are appreciated. I try to remain calm during our interactions. 
 