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I'm a depressive who goes to Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance meetings. Your son might find some meetings (either online or on person) useful.
If he goes, a friend of mine always used to say that you should try every meeting twice. You try every meeting, because each has a different group 'personality', and you go twice because any group or person can have an 'off' night. If DBSA doesn't work out, there are other groups that may help (NAMI, Recovery, etc), but those have a more general focus that may or may not work for him.
The people at my meeting go there because it provides understanding and support and helps keep them on their meds. I will say that a number of the bipolars in my group have gone on manic spending sprees at times, that they've later had to walk back because they didn't have the money for the purchase(s). Like, at one meeting, one bipolar said they'd been off their meds once, walked into a car dealership and bought an expensive brand-new car. At this point, several other bipolars said they'd done the same thing, with one person adding that she'd bought a horse, and the final person confessing that she'd bought a house. They each did walk back their purchases, but it did cause some stress in their relationships. I don't know if this is typical of bipolars in general or just the people in my group.