Alana Miller, a DeSoto High School graduate and cheerleader at Southern University, always had a smile that lit up a room, but privately she dealt with her own struggles and committed suicide this May. Alana's mother Janice is sharing her daughter's story hoping to help others who may be going through tough times.
Janice Miller says she never knew or saw any signs that her daughter was suffering in silence.
"The cheerleaders would tell you she was the one who would make them laugh, the silly person, the goofy person," she said."She always would just come into the room and would just smile and would always ask how everyone was doing," Miller remembers. In her freshman year, Arlana tore her ACL and needed surgery. Balancing a busy schedule also got tough."It's like she was hiding it putting on this mask every day. Smiling and happy for everybody else, but she was hurting in silence," said Miller.She shared her pain in a social media post, left a personal letter in her car for her mother, and then took her own life.
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