chamique holdsclaw joins us now. welcome back to washington. >> thank you. >> very good to have you here. let me say from the outset, i think what you're talking about, you're talking about a lot of things in your life, obviously, a lot of us were not aware of the things you were struggling with, even in the heyday, the peaks of your career, and i think it's brave to write a book about it and talk about it, because there still seems to be a stigma for people to talk about these things. >> yes. it's tough. when you talk about mental health, people don't want to hear about it, because the stigma attached. i struggled with that. i didn't want people to see me as weak. i'm a person that couldn't cope because i was an athlete. if you drove around d.c., my picture was everywhere, you know. when i came out and started talking about it, people didn't understand, you know, they were really harsh on me. i just told myself after i had the suicide attempt in 2006 that i wanted to make a change. if god got me through that, i sat