I really enjoy reading your advice and I’m now hoping you can help me with something that’s been troubling me for some time. It’s to do with my 27-year-old son.

I’m sure he has depression and he also suffers with anxiety and bouts of anger. But most of the time he is absolutely lovely and helps me to look after my mam, who is very ill.

I find it sad that he doesn’t go out much and I worry that if anything were to happen to me, he’d struggle to cope.

He is quite clever but has no confidence at all. He seems to cope well with the bigger ­problems in life but small things push him over the edge. I wonder if he could be on the autism spectrum or if he has another condition.

He currently takes medication for

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