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“Life is a tough game, and we can’t get through it alone,” says Olympic swimmer Allison Schmitt (@アリソン・シュミット). After her 17-year-old cousin died by suicide in May 2015, Allison, now 26, decided to raise awareness and open up about her own struggles with depression.
“We’re taught from a young age to persevere, and if we keep persevering, we’ll be stronger on the other side. That works in a classroom. It works on the field. It worked in the pool for me. But it’s much bigger than that.
I first started getting help in January of 2015. I was at a swim meet two weeks after I had, I guess, dark feelings for the first time. At that swim meet, my teammate and friend Michael Phelps (@マイケル・フェルプス), who’s like a brother to me, noticed that I was not the same old bubbly Schmitty I had always been. He said, ‘I see you’re going through something. You’re not your same self. If you want to talk, I’m #hereforyou — or I can get someone else to talk to you.’ For some reason, at that moment, coming from him, it really resonated with me. I broke down on the pool deck in front of everyone I know, and I admitted that I do need help.
I want people to know it’s OK not to be OK. But it’s not OK to isolate. So please, ask for help. It’s OK to ask for help.”
Photo by @アリソン・シュミット

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