‘It can suffocate you and it can grab you’ – Clare Shine on depression and alcohol addiction

Trigger warning – This article contains references to suicide and alcoholism, if you or anyone you know is struggling please call the Samaritans at any time for free from any phone on 116 123. You can also write a letter, send an email or use the self-help app. Footballer Clare Shine has spoken about her attempt to take her own life and how she has turned her life around in the latest episode of the Eurosport show, The Power of Sport.

Ad Shine is one of the best strikers in the Scottish Women’s Premier League but she had a difficult path, telling the Power of Sport of her struggle with depression. Champions LeagueBarca, Bayern and Inter in Group of Death, Liverpool face RangersAN HOUR AGO “It’s like being swallowed whole into one of the darkest oceans and not being able to come out of it," Shine said. «You feel so lonely all the time, but you’re surrounded by people you love.

It doesn’t make sense. “It can suffocate you and it can grab you. I wish that there was a cure for depression and anxiety and addiction problems, but there’s not.

“I was always someone who liked wearing tracksuits or shorts or wearing my hair up, no make up. And I feel like I was left out a little bit. It caused a lot of self-doubt.

My self-esteem was low, my confidence was low. I’ve always had anxiety. “I lost my friend when I was 15.