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His brother Michael opened up about it in this article:
http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2014/10/post_40.html

Daniel Ryder, 7 years younger than Michael, has battled severe psychosis and barely communicates with anyone after a promising hockey career came to a tragic and sudden end six years ago.

“It’s tough because you have a brother but you don’t really have a brother,” Ryder told NJ Advance Media on Monday. “He has psychosis, OCD, anxiety, all of it. He’s on all different kinds of meds but nothing really seems to help.

“It’s hard to get him to do things. He won’t do much. I don’t talk to him too much. It’s hard to keep a conversation going with him sometimes. As long as he’s safe, my parents are happy. But it’s tough for them. It’s tough for them to do things because they have to think about him.”

“He would hear voices telling him to do stuff. That’s tough,” Michael said.

Ryder, who lives during off seasons in St. John's, Newfoundland, tried to help his brother.

“I talked to him, but he’s a pretty stubborn kid. You couldn’t really talk to him. He was going to do his own thing,” Michael explained. “With his mental issues, you don’t really know what he was thinking. It’s tough. He’s been on so many different meds and nothing really seems to make him get past that.”

There were never any signs of emotional problems when Daniel was a young kid.

“No. He was perfect. Outgoing, always on the go,” Michael remembered. “Then, all of a sudden things just changed. I don’t know what happened.”