I've been into fitness since I was 13.

Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things.

There have been struggles and challenges that I have faced that few know about but I hope will help others going through the same thing.