Former State Representative Ron Volesky is in the Huron paper today, not for being a train wreck, but reaching out to others and talking about overcoming depression:
“I was the second youngest person ever elected to the state legislature,” said Volesky, who basked in the novelty at the time. “I started to believe my own press. I fell into bad habits, I did things I’m ashamed of today.”
Emotion colored his voice as he remebered isolating himself from the world around him.
“I was ashamed, and I hid away,” he said. “For a year or longer I would walk down the alley to get to my office so I wouldn’t meet people.”
Volesky said his world turned inward and the sadness grew as he continued to isolate himself from others. “You can’t find help until you admit it,” he added. “It’s okay to say I need help.
Read the entire story here in the Huron Daily Plainsman.
If Ron has been able to tame some of the demons that would land him in the press from time to time, good for him.
Ron was one of the first people I met when I moved to Huron in 1992. That fall he completed an improbable political comeback when he was elected as a Democrat to the Legislature, and the Plainsman (I was editor then) recognized him as that year’s top story.
I’ve always liked Ron, and he always treated me well. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone speak ill of him. Good to know that, with faith, he’s beaten back his personal demons.
Good thing he had a down to earth mentally stable wife.
Indeed. Other than her friends who are insaner than most, like Ms. Hubbel, Mrs. Volesky is a very nice lady and grudznick does tend to favor her.
lead on sir.