Thank you Val - I think what you say is very insightful and I will pass it on to him

I think he really wants to fix it now - I certainly hope so... He has always tried to chose things that he will be good at, esp where he is in the minority (ie he did dancing from age 6 right through university and even now - and because he was almost always the only male dancer as a child he was automatically lauded and applauded). I think he needs to, as you say, look at himself and go from there.
He keeps saying that he is ADHD and I just don't think that he is. Really I just think that his mind works fast in many different directions and he needs to learn to focus even when it's the things he has mastered already - because that is his chosen profession.