There are two environments that mentally ill people probably shouldn’t hang out or get themselves into: military and college. Between the stress, back-stage theatrics, and day-to-day pressure...neither would be helpful to this kind of person.
In this episode, cops report the kid as alcohol-driven. It’ll be a month before the medical report draws real conclusions. My suspicion is that for some reason, he went off and consumed a lot of booze and got himself into a student-to-cop confrontation. I’m not quiet buying into the mental breakdown thing yet. If just consuming a lot of booze qualifies for a mental breakdown....then we have five or six million people nightly who do this.
People with bi-polar disorder often self medicate with alcohol and drugs.