Suicide: How my failed attempts became my biggest success | Shraddha Shankar | TEDxUIUC

Shraddha Shankar is an undergraduate student who has suffered from mental illness for the majority of her life and has survived 13 suicide attempts over the course of her adolescence. In a powerful talk at TEDxUIUC, she shares her story with the public for the first time, where she shares the struggles she faced growing up with a severe mental disorder and her secret to finally finding recovery. Shraddha is an undergraduate at Illinois studying Statistics and is an Executive Education Chair in the National