Swim star Shayna Jack has revealed she attempted to take her own life as she battled trauma and reactive depression during a years-long fight to clear her name in the wake of a baffling positive drug
In an at-times confronting but important column for Code Insight’s mental health issue, guest editor Jack reveals her low point after feeling she’d become a burden to everyone she loved while fighting the guilty till proven innocent system surrounding sports drug testing.
Jack told her story as a warning to others to recognise the dangers of not speaking up when going through hard times in life.“I was done with the process. I was done with life.“And boy, did it scare me.” Jack eventually served a two-year ban after winning an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to have her four-year suspension cut in half but had to endure a second CAS hearing after an 11th hour appeal from Sport Integrity Australia and World Anti-Doping Agency that was eventually fruitless.
Also in the October issue of Insight, inside today’s paper, Olympic champion Sally Pearson opens up about her social anxiety and making the transition from professional athlete to career woman and mother; world surfing champ Tyler Wright reveals the effect of trauma on her life; and rising football star Nikki Flannery talks about dealing with mental health challenges during Covid lockdown.
There’s also previews of all of October’s biggest women’s sporting action including the A-League women’s kick-off and Matildas’ return and the world-conquering Diamonds’ quest to beat their New Zealand hoodoo.Shayna Jack has revealed the crippling depths of her mental health battles following her drug ban, saying she was ‘done with life’.A photo of two Chinese athletes has been censored on social media in China with one tiny detail in the photo the reason behind it all.
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