text: Oh, I dunno, Thomas.  An obsessive mother who kept every scrap of his childhood carefully squirreled away, and a son who "was completely unable to deal with her illness and death, and describes what followed as a “dark and blurry” period where he was severely depressed and couldn’t cope with life."
  
  Not an excuse, of course.  But, part of the explanation.  Pieces of the puzzle...