RIP.
Depression is insidious beyond belief.If it turns out Flanagan was indeed suffering depression, yes. But we don't know yet.RIP.
Any more than we know just how much to heart he took the failures of his organisation, if that, too, was a factor. The strongest men on earth have been known to take the blame for their employers' falterings whether or not they were to blame for them. And if their jobs are that deep a part of their beings . . .