Description:The one book on sport - and mental illness - that everyone must read.On paper Scotty Hodges had it all.In a football career amost without peer, Scott was drafted as a teenager to represent the team he loved, Port Adelaide, and would go on to win a staggering eight premierships.He would break the State's all-time goal-kicking record, win its highest honour, the Magarey Medal, and be headhunted as the star forward in the inaugural Adelaide Crows AFL team. He had a beautiful wife, herself the daughter of football royalty, and two gorgeous young kids.Behind all this his life was falling apart.For years, Scott grappled with undiagnosed mental illness, sending him into a spiral of confusion and isolation, drug and alcohol abuse, anger and violence. He kept his secret from the world, and even began planning his own demise.This is the gritty and raw account of how an ordinary man overcame extraordinary demons, and emerged the other side with a message of hope and survival.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended. To get started finding Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
279
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Ebury Press
Release
2017
ISBN
0143785133
Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended
Description: The one book on sport - and mental illness - that everyone must read.On paper Scotty Hodges had it all.In a football career amost without peer, Scott was drafted as a teenager to represent the team he loved, Port Adelaide, and would go on to win a staggering eight premierships.He would break the State's all-time goal-kicking record, win its highest honour, the Magarey Medal, and be headhunted as the star forward in the inaugural Adelaide Crows AFL team. He had a beautiful wife, herself the daughter of football royalty, and two gorgeous young kids.Behind all this his life was falling apart.For years, Scott grappled with undiagnosed mental illness, sending him into a spiral of confusion and isolation, drug and alcohol abuse, anger and violence. He kept his secret from the world, and even began planning his own demise.This is the gritty and raw account of how an ordinary man overcame extraordinary demons, and emerged the other side with a message of hope and survival.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended. To get started finding Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.