Good Luck Raven!
I’ll be competing in my first indoor meet since 2017. 2018 I didn’t compete indoors bc on 1/26/18 I was omw to carrying out an attempt to end my life. If not for sending a text to an old therapist I would not be here rn. Everyday I live is a gift bc that day could’ve been my last pic.twitter.com/N9SWlkVU6u
— Raven HULK Saunders (@GiveMe1Shot) January 17, 2020
-shot-put star Raven Saunders, who was 5th at the 2016 Olympics, writing about how she considered suicide just two years ago. As she told The Post and Courier in an excellent profile of her, “I knew I had to be somewhere, but I just rolled past campus and kept driving and driving. I was in a daze, and I could tell something was very off. I just felt like I was in over my head. I was probably about 10 or 15 minutes from trying to end my life.”
Feeling suicidal? Call the national suicide hot-line at 1-800-273-8255. Or chat online with them here. Read about Saunders inspiring come-back here.
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