Episode 9- Maggie Lyons

<p>TW: This episode discusses topics such as, anxiety, depression, and suicidal thinking.</p> <p>Maggie Lyons is with us on this week’s episode to discuss her personal experience with mental health. Maggie has battled with anxiety a large sum of her life and was shortly diagnosed with depression when she came to college and discusses her struggle with suicidal thinking.</p> <p>Maggie was ultimately faced with one of the hardest decisions of her life as she had to choose between her own mental health and playing college lacrosse at Virginia Tech.</p> <p>Maggie’s vulnerability is a reminder for student athletes, and for everyone out there, that it is okay to be struggling and it is okay to ask for help.</p> <p>If you or someone you know is struggling the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is: 800-273-8255</p>