A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the outside, Drew Petersen seemed like a guy who was living the dream. He is extremely fit with a powder-snow-catching beard, and he’s prone to hoots of joy when skiing down amazing mountains around the world. But on the inside, he was for many years hiding loneliness, anger, and a deep sadness. Only recently, in the wake of a near-death accident on Oregon’s Mount Hood, has he begun to face the mental health challenges that nearly drove him to oblivion. He’s also made the bold choice to be jarringly open about what he’s gone through—because he knows that he’s not the only one.

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0:00.0	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:16.6	Hey everyone, Michael Roberts here.
0:19.2	Before we start today's episode by producer Patio O'Connell, I want to let you know that
0:23.9	it focuses on some heavy topics, including suicide.
0:28.2	It's also a beautiful and deeply moving story, and there's even some laughter.
0:33.4	For all of the interviews that I've done, I don't believe that I've actually ever had
0:39.0	Kleenex at the ready, and I do.
0:42.4	I just, it's like outside podcast this week brought to you by tissues and tears starring
0:52.7	Drew and Patti.
0:54.3	I just have to get so much snot out of my nose so that I can talk.
1:01.9	In my closet, and I don't have Kleenex like you do because you came prepared, so I'm picking
1:10.8	out what shirt I'm going to blow my nose into.
1:14.1	Oh, no, there we go, I got a nice little necktube.
1:21.4	Just so the listeners know, like, you can make me cry till the cows come home, as they
1:36.3	say.
1:37.3	I'm fucking here for it, and nothing is off limits today, so let the tears flow, let
1:45.3	the snot flow, but every once in a while I have to clear it.
1:49.4	This is probably a good time to let you know that I will most likely not be borrowing
1:55.6	a necktube from you in the future.
2:03.8	That is a Terry and pretty snotty, Drew Peterson.
2:07.5	Drew is a professional skier, and on paper, he possesses all the characteristics of the
2:12.4	archetypal outdoor athlete.
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