Rick Holtz is a co-owner of the Polk County News. Find his column in the newspaper and online at www.polkcountynews.net.
Over the weekend I found out that a friend from my youth group growing up had been struggling with depression. He shared in a Facebook post how he fought the battle by himself, fell into a bottle and almost took his life last year.
I nearly lost him and I never knew it. It broke my heart.
This is someone that I was friends with 20 years ago and over the years we have let lif...
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