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Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Brian Maurer urged people struggling with their mental health to "reach out to receive help" after revealing he planned to take his own life on Jan. 22.
In a post Friday on Instagram, Maurer detailed his struggles with anxiety and depression, which started in the seventh grade during a difficult time in his family life.
Over the two years from seventh to ninth grade, Maurer said his father was sentenced to 25 years in prison, his mother and stepfather separated and he moved away from his mother and sister to live with his grandmother.