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Marta Rivera Diaz had decided she’d had enough. In 1993, the 15-year-old came home from school, went into her bedroom and swallowed more than 100 pills.
“I locked my door, sat on the bed and just waited,” Rivera Diaz says. “When you’re that young, you don’t get that there’s no coming back from this — or if you do, you’re kind of like, why would I want to come back from this?”
Amanda Schiavo is an associate editor of Employee Benefit News. Follow her on Twitter at @SchiavoAmanda.
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