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Battling intense depression, former Huskies WR Isaiah Renfro took a long road back to football.

Maybe you have never heard of Isaiah Renfro. But you should know his struggle. There are scores like him, young athletes on college campuses grappling with mental illness — a crisis that is only now getting serious attention. Here's one man's story of how he fought his way out of the dark.

Something was wrong. He could sense it.

The feeling had been stalking him for months. The lights were off in his bedroom, and the darkness closed in on him.

Isaiah Renfro, a top freshman wide receiver at the University of Washington, was at his home in South Los Angeles.