Idaho State softball player battles darkness
(WorldNews Sport)

The darkness rolls in like an invisible fog, draping over every thought, compounding until the internal agony becomes unbearable. Haley Harrison built a facade to mask its clutches, swallowing the mental torment to avoid any appearance of weakness. A senior softball player at Idaho State, she had been taught all her life to be mentally strong, to tamp down vulnerabilities. Three times the darkness - and the weight of trying to suppress it - overwhelmed Harrison. Her exhausted mind saw no way out except through the bottom of a pill bottle. With Harrison´s third suicide attempt came an escape route. She got a proper diagnosis, not just the `you´re depressed` she heard so many times. She...