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A filtered life

ESPN’s Kate Fagan with Split Image, a look at depression and suicide in the age of social media.

On Instagram, Madison Holleran’s life looked ideal: Star athlete, bright student, beloved friend. But the photos hid the reality of someone struggling to go on.

(Life’s never as good as it looks on Facebook or as bad as it sounds on Twitter.)