Sam doesn’t limit his writing talent to blog entries. The quiet man also writes with a witty voice of
leadership to encourage his housemates.
When I relayed that plan to the great folks in the local
Mental Health Center, they put me in the Crisis Unit.
You see, if someone has a plan to end it all, they have
to take you seriously. En route, I was asked that by
police, ambulance workers, hospital personnel.
Not sure anybody took me seriously enough until I got
to the Mental Health Center. Long story short, they
got me into the Crisis Unit, which saved my life, getting
me on the anti-depression medication I needed.
That led to better days and on to this journey at the
shelter, where I celebrated my year’s anniversary just
this week.
Leave it to my brother, though, to show me the biggest
flaw in the whole suicide at the ballpark plan.
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