Hi. First, I am sorry to hear of your depression and your son's diagnosis. You must feel scared with so many unknowns. I am 58 and was diagnosed with iritis/uveitis at age 12. Working with doctors to manage it, mostly with steroid drops, worked for some time, but I was eventually diagnosed with Glaucoma at around 20. However, a contributing factor was that I was treated with steroid pills to treat the underlying systemic condition, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, which caused the iritis. This does not mean the same thing will happen to your son. I am not a doctor, but medical treatments have improved (I hope!) since I was a kid. I hope you can get to a good ophthalmologist for your son to help him manage and reduce the inflammation and pain. Wishing your whole family the best!