My little brother needs therapy?!? 🤨😔 (may be long)

My mom came over yesterday to my house yesterday after dropping off her husband. We were talking about my brothers. She says that she’s going to take my little brother to therapy because she thinks he may have some type of mental illness. My husband and I think it’s something else. She said my brother is saying that he wants nothing to do with life, he doesn’t feel supported since his dad died, he feels like he can’t do anything in life right and all he does is mess up.

Here’s a little background: my little brother is 16, he plays basketball and baseball. His father(my wonderful step dad) died in 2011 on Christmas. My mom is now married again(a little over a year). Her husband is just this grumpy, negative person. Never has anything positive to say. Like he tells my brother “that’s good but you could of done this or that” “why do wear this type of clothes” “why do you do that.” You never never supportive.

I feel that is what the problem might be, my brother feels like he’s not good enough or supported by him. My step dad was great with me, I was 10 when he got married to my mom and he always supported my moms and all her kids(4 of us) he treated me better than my bio dad. I think my little brother just needs to feel supported by my moms husband like a father would. I don’t know my brother wants to go to college, play baseball professionally, he wants to do a lot and no w out of sudden he’s thinking like this. He either has a very high look in life or a very low look, there’s nowhere in between. It makes me feel so sad that he’s going through this. Any ideas or thoughts.