The fog enveloped Carolina Panthers receiver Torrey Smith, thick and disorienting.
It was late September 2012, and Smith’s younger brother, Tevin, had just been killed in a motorcycle accident. And the dark parts of Smith’s mind, created by a stressful, single-parent childhood during which he helped raise Tevin, were stirring.
“I couldn’t sleep. Couldn’t eat. Was losing weight,” Smith said this week. “It probably was depression. ... It might seem weird to say that, but when you think about what they say it is, and the moods, the fog. ... I experienced all of those.”
Smith said he leaned on his wife, Chanel, and sought therapy.