'I would just say hope is just pretending to believe in something until one day you don't have to pretend any more,' former Ohio State offensive lineman Harry Miller said.
. His mental health struggles were so severe, he wrote, that he told his coach he had intended to take his own life before this past football season.The junior from Buford, Georgia, who was a starter on the 2020 Ohio State team that won the Big Ten championship, was able to get professional help after head coach Ryan Day referred him to mental health experts."They are hard to see, and they are easy to hide, but they sure do hurt," he continued.
In his statement, Miller wrote that he wrestled with the idea of getting help, saying that at the time he would"rather be dead than a coward."Robin Alam / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Miller's struggles were hidden behind an image of seemingly having it all. He has a 4.0 grade-point average as a mechanical engineering major at Ohio State and was the valedictorian of his high school, in addition to being one of the nation's top recruits as a center. He also regularly volunteers in Ohio and has made mission trips to Nicaragua to help families in need build homes.
"You play a game, it's a hard game, perhaps you made a lot of mistakes, and people send you a message saying, 'Transfer, you suck,'" he said."Some people get death threats that I know on the team, and I'm trying to text my mom, that's the first thing I see, and then you can't worry about it too much because you've got an exam the next day.
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