Our House e-newsletter July 2012 | Page 21

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. continued on pg 22