From the age of nine he has been hospitalized twice and under the care of several doctors and the meds. Mother needs help and is serching all avenues any help you could give would be apprecieated. Although on occasion a personality may be affected by bleedthrough from another life time, it is not as common as is supposed. For example, if you are still holding onto bitterness and resentment concerning this man, your son will be picking this up, either directly, or energetically through telepathic and other transference means. For a child to lose a parent, either though death or through divorce is a traumatic event.
Depression is suppressed anger, grief and desperation.
Whenever one parent speaks in a derogatory tone about the other, the child is shamed. The child knows that it was created by the parents, and therefore if there is something wrong with a parent, the child assumes that it too is bad. You have no need to look into past lives to solve this issue, perhaps only into the recent past. Secrets are also important. Whilst it is not appropriate to inform your child of everything you do, family secrets do cause distress for a child as the child knows on a deeper level what is going on.