Robinson shares story of suicide try with OSU college students

Editor’s be aware: This story consists of particulars of a suicide try and offers with themes of suicide.

Drew Robinson regarded down at a laminated sheet and slowly learn a letter to himself from a couple of years in the past.

A number of months after the day he’ll keep in mind ceaselessly.

He remembers the second he grabbed a handgun along with his proper hand and pressed it to his proper temple. He stated he was uninterested in attempting to stay as much as not possible expectations as an expert baseball participant.

Bang.

A day later, Robinson wakened. Someway a bullet to the pinnacle did not kill him.

Robinson, a retired baseball participant, spoke on the Scholar Union Theater on Tuesday night time and shared his story, his resolution to decide on life after a failed suicide try.

After waking up, Robinson sat on the sofa with the gun in a single hand prepared for one more shot and 911 dialed the telephone within the different. As he sat there considering, he pressed his telephone to name 911, then put down his gun.

Since his try within the spring of 2020, Robinson has performed one other season {of professional} baseball. Now he works as a psychological well being advocate for the San Francisco Giants. He travels and speaks for the varied organizations, as does OSU’s welfare division.

“Hold spreading the message attempting to bridge the hole between our gamers and our professionals,” Robinson stated. “Allow them to know that this can be a useful inspired useful resource reasonably than a weak point. I am simply attempting to assist unfold the message and the Giants are on the forefront from a baseball perspective.

Robinson’s story, which ESPN baseball author Jeff Passan highlighted in a function and documentary, is acquainted to baseball and softball gamers.

The OSU softball workforce and coach Kenny Gajewski attended the occasion together with Cowboys baseball coach Josh Holliday.

All through the occasion, Robinson confused that psychological well being points can occur with anybody. Even an expert baseball participant like him. He learn a letter, a journal entry from a couple of months after his try. He stated his survival did not match scientifically or anatomically, however spiritually.

“It is simply such a common subject that all of us battle with typically,” he stated. “So with the ability to join with student-athletes, the scholar physique, and anybody who’s keen to pay attention and hopefully study one thing. Be taught the message that power is not all the time bodily. It was actually cool to attach with them and I am actually grateful that we have been in a position to put this collectively.

Many college students, like Libby Harrison, did not know Robinson’s story earlier than the occasion, however got here away with rather a lot discovered.

“I really feel like he is very motivating,” Harrison stated. “It kinda simply places it into perspective, even people who find themselves excessive up in life and have this excellent image of life, they battle with that too.”

Many counselors from the college’s steerage providers have been obtainable for providers after the speech. Robinson inspired college students to ask for assist if wanted. Members of Pete’s Pet Posse have been additionally current.

“I believe the way in which he talks about his background, his expertise in remedy and utilizing the assets that he had, I believe it was actually cool for the scholars to have the ability to hear that,” stated the scholar Wylie Dyer. “There is no such thing as a disgrace and there’s no weak point in asking for assist in case you want it. I believe that was a very cool level that he made plenty of instances.