Talent. A Football Scholarship. Then Crushing Depression.

.....What experts know is this: Recent studies place suicide as the third leading cause of death for college athletes, behind motor vehicle accidents and medical issues.

And nearly 25 percent of college athletes who participated in a widely touted 2016 study led by researchers at Drexel University displayed signs of depressive symptoms.....

.....Isaiah began meeting with her (a therapist). He told her about his deepest emotions. Together, they focused on why he was playing football. Was he doing it for himself? Or because excelling on the gridiron was something others expected and wanted of him?

Once, he went into a private room near her office and cried.

The therapy helped. He told his mother that the sessions were keeping his life from crumbling. What he didn’t tell her was that he had begun to have suicidal thoughts......

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Bethany`s Notes: The real and honest story about Isaiah Renfro.