There are no degrees on my wall related in any way to psychiatry, but for whatever it’s worth, it just seems that both Eddie and his mother may have succumbed to a tremendous amount of depression that could no longer be managed. Both having lost loved ones in what may have been a tightly knit family unit in this string of what, three members over the past few years being ripped out of their lives was just become too much to shoulder.
We’ve all been more closely associated with Eddie’s story, as well as experiencing visually and emotionally the highs and lows of our shared love for TCU basketball and the Power of Purple throughout our lives. His dealing with the loss of his brother at OU, his aunt, and if I recall correctly, the murder/death another brother earlier before he arrived has been the underlying energy driving this mess. But I have to feel terribly sad for his mother and her dealing with the loss of two sons and a sister (or sister-in-law). If she’s a single parent, it just makes it worse for the both of them.
There is almost certainly a component of their hopes and dreams that had been discussed of how the boys were going to give their mother a comfortable life in her golden years via their visions of pro athletes’ income that their NIL has provided a taste from both TCU & OU. Now all that has seemingly evaporated. I can’t and don’t want to imagine the massive depression just losing my loved ones would cause in my life as an elderly man. Add to that the loss of their ‘golden ticket(s)’, trying to keep from going crazy is quite possibly their new normal.
May God have mercy on them.
