Presenting: The Long Lonely Lake

Back from Broken

Colorado Public Radio

Society & Culture

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Colorado Public Radio reporter Dan Boyce uses interviews with friends and family, plus a fishing trip, to piece together lost memories from his own mental breakdown.

A quick warning: This story is brutal at times, and raw. It contains content that may not be suitable for all listeners, including strong language and frank discussion of suicide.

By the time Dan was 30, when most of this episode takes place, he was doing well for himself. He was moving from local reporting in his native Montana, to covering national stories from his new home in Denver.

Dan had previously suffered from bouts of depression through most of his life, but nothing he couldn’t overcome. During this time though, Dan really slipped — descending into a depression so severe that it led to a complete mental breakdown.

On today’s episode, how Dan bounced back from the edge of insanity.

Here’s a story Dan calls “The Long Lonely Lake.”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Vic. Just want to let you know this episode contains strong language and discussion of suicide.
0:06.5	Please be advised.
0:09.4	In three, two, one.
0:14.2	Hey, it's Vic Vela. Back from Broken, we'll be officially returning for season two in January. Yay. And we're really excited about
0:22.9	bringing you new recovery stories then. But first, we wanted to share a bonus episode that's a little
0:28.3	different than what we normally do on the podcast. This first person account you're about to hear
0:34.3	comes from my colleague Dan Boyce. Dan's a reporter here at Colorado Public
0:39.0	Radio based in Colorado Springs, and he's been working on his own back from Broken Story
0:44.0	for a few years now. Dan and I chat from time to time, and he's a really good guy. Most people
0:50.3	at CPR know him as kind of a class clown too who likes to make people laugh.
0:55.4	At the station's online holiday party this year, Dan just kept slowly adding more and more
1:01.1	decorations around himself as the night went on.
1:04.5	By the end of the party, he had transformed into a snowman.
1:08.2	And his screen was a total winter wonderland.
1:10.5	It was great. But Dan's a serious
1:13.0	journalist who normally doesn't share too much about himself publicly. And I don't think more
1:18.1	than a handful of people at CPR know about the struggles from his past. By the time Dan was 30,
1:24.8	when most of this episode takes place, he was doing well for himself.
1:29.3	He was moving from local reporting in his native Montana to covering national stories from
1:34.6	his new home in Denver.
1:36.6	Dan had previously suffered from bouts of depression through most of his life, but nothing
1:41.3	he couldn't overcome.
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