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Jarryd Ross

@jarrydross

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🕺 semi-retired actor -> keynote speaker
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@tonydanza singing in the street. nyc is wild, man. taken in New York, New York by @jarrydross

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3 months ago

today something happened that i truly never thought would… i turned 30.

i spent so many years of my twenties depressed and in my head just fighting to make it to the next day… this one feels like a real milestone.

whether we’re friends in the real world or met online, if you’ve come to a show / event or have not the slightest clue who i am… it’s all the same to me - i’m happy you’re here.

thanks for being you and for being along for the journey… feeling so very grateful 💛💛 by @jarrydross

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7 months ago

First instagram post in over a year brought to you by sleeping cats, Mexico, and @aircanada taken in Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico by @jarrydross

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3 years ago

Grateful is an accurate descriptor. I feel so, so lucky to have gotten to work with, become friends, and share the stage with such an effortlessly talented group over the past few months. taken in FirstOntario Concert Hall by @jarrydross

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3 years ago

In my experience, “it” doesn’t get better... you do.

In 2013 I was in a car accident on my way to a hockey game in Ottawa. My car spun a bunch, and my head broke straight through the driver’s side door window.

On the surface, I was very lucky. No severe bone breaks, just a bunch of bruises, some broken glass, and a headache.

After a few subsequent hockey-related concussions, the “headache” would never leave me.

I couldn’t sleep, lights and sounds of all kinds drove me insane. More terrifying though was that I began to hear voices in my head, and had panic attacks on the daily. I felt like I was going crazy and as far as I knew, I was.

Time passed and things changed. While the physical symptoms slowly improved, the mental ones just kept on getting worse - and I had no idea what to do. My brain was fucked, but I had no way of proving it or showing it to other people.

As years went on, virtually every doctor would give me their own version of, “The brain is a funny thing, and it just needs time.”

One night a few years ago I was driving on the highway in Burlington planning how I was going to drive into oncoming traffic. I’d been living like this for years and felt like I was going crazier and crazier every day. I would wake up in the morning and go to bed at night in a fog. Nothing could make me happy, and on top of everything else - my cognitive functioning was decreasing to the point t where I couldn’t even remember the way home.

I didn’t want to die - it just seemed like my only way out.

I made a deal with myself though. I’d drive to the hospital and if they couldn’t help me or give me some sliver of hope, I’d do it.

Since driving to the ER that night, I’ve been on all different combinations of drugs and done all sorts of therapies. I’ve seen psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists. I’ve taken anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, stimulants, and learned meditation and yoga.

Nothing happened overnight, and yet everything changed in an instant. I discovered what I needed to start to rebuild my life, and all it was was the right person empowering me to believe that it was possible.

CONT’D IN COMMENTS taken in Ottawa, Ontario by @jarrydross

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6 years ago

This one time I played the lover of a crazy @veronika_iscool
#comedy #secondcity #girlfriend #xoxo #crazy #crazyexgirlfriend #basedonatruestory #suitandtie #justintimberlake #jt #jr #jrisme #iamjr #hashtag taken in The Second City Toronto by @jarrydross

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9 years ago

@justforlaughs taken in Place des Arts by @jarrydross

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9 years ago

taken in Lake Simcoe by @jarrydross

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10 years ago