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Poetry helped Imani conquer depression:
Poetry, Imani McGee-Stafford says, saved her life.
She was still in middle school when she began putting the words rumbling through her head onto paper, filling notebook after notebook in search of a voice to break free of the depression that was choking her.
After being sexually abused as a child, the promising young basketball player attempted suicide three times by age 17. But she kept writing as part of her daily "dogfight" of emotions.
Eventually, that writing pulled her out of depression. She found her voice at slam-poetry competitions, where she could stand up and use poetry to tell her story.
