“It was October 2014. I tried to take my own life by self harm. I got really really depressed. It’s one of the most embarrassing moments for me too, just thinking about how someone can get that low in their life to want to do something like that. It’s not the proudest moment but it was definitely one of the hardest. Also, I believe everything happens for a reason. And from then on, from that day I had a new perspective in life, wanting to help other people, it’s really a life-altering situation.
I was taking a chemistry course at Douglas College, just upgrading, wanted to go into more advance sciences (health sciences). Within taking that course, I’m kind of a perfectionist in the way where I’m very hard at myself. If I’m not understanding something at school I like to beat myself about it with a lot of things. So, with that, it was really hard for me, just out of high school, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do, I broke up with my high school boyfriend, I felt lost. I needed to move on with my life so I broke up with him, lost a lot of friends. I just felt alone. And even though I had my family, who was a very tight knit group and I did have friends, I just didn’t see that. It’s really hard for people to see when you get to that depressed mind state, it’s almost like a tunnel, you don’t see anything but just this hopeless little hole that you are in. And for me, it was just one thing after the other, I just had this black and white, grey world that I was living in.” – Michelle Huntley, Mental Health Advocate and Former Gymnast. (4/8)
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