She was the only girl in the boys' high school hockey league, fighting to keep playing in spite of concussions and other serious injuries. By age seventeen, she was battling her second round of severe depression, this time while hooked on crack. A near-death experience-her interrupted suicide-would haunt her through multiple unsuccessful attempts at drug and alcohol treatment. Then, Jennifer Cannon realized she had to find her own path to recovery.
"I never wanted to destroy my life, damage my brain, or come so close to killing myself that I'd wake up strangling on a psych ward floor. . ....