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Part of me was hoping for some answers. I knew they would not be there. Rarely are there answers in stories like these although we so desperately want to find one.
We want to point to a specific incident, a moment or an encounter. We want to find the ways the people in her life failed her. We want to blame social media. We want the opportunity to say oh that’s why she did it.
But we don’t get to do that. Instead we’re only left with more questions, more areas to explore both for the people we love and for ourselves. We’re left with an understanding that we don’t understand. But that we can move forward, one story at a time.
Kate Fagan does a remarkable job with her work “What Made Maddy Run.” Subtitled, “The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of An All-American Teen” the book examines the life and suicide of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran while she was a freshman track athlete at UPenn. Kate’s work is masterful, giving us as much a look into Maddy’s life as possible woven expertly with her own first-person accounts of her own mental battles as a Division I athlete along with research and interviews.
Perhaps the most haunting aspect of the work is how easy it is, for me at least, to relate to Maddy. Despite more than two decades between our ages, and the fact I was not a highly recruited athlete (hell, I wasn’t an athlete of any kind when I was a teenager), I understood some of what seemed to be going on in Maddy’s world. She had a drive for perfection. She had a drive to please. And her perception of herself was vastly different from the one of people around her.
I have a full review and thoughts on my blog (www.amymoritz.com) if you want to read some more.
We want to point to a specific incident, a moment or an encounter. We want to find the ways the people in her life failed her. We want to blame social media. We want the opportunity to say oh that’s why she did it.
But we don’t get to do that. Instead we’re only left with more questions, more areas to explore both for the people we love and for ourselves. We’re left with an understanding that we don’t understand. But that we can move forward, one story at a time.
Kate Fagan does a remarkable job with her work “What Made Maddy Run.” Subtitled, “The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of An All-American Teen” the book examines the life and suicide of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran while she was a freshman track athlete at UPenn. Kate’s work is masterful, giving us as much a look into Maddy’s life as possible woven expertly with her own first-person accounts of her own mental battles as a Division I athlete along with research and interviews.
Perhaps the most haunting aspect of the work is how easy it is, for me at least, to relate to Maddy. Despite more than two decades between our ages, and the fact I was not a highly recruited athlete (hell, I wasn’t an athlete of any kind when I was a teenager), I understood some of what seemed to be going on in Maddy’s world. She had a drive for perfection. She had a drive to please. And her perception of herself was vastly different from the one of people around her.
I have a full review and thoughts on my blog (www.amymoritz.com) if you want to read some more.