Neal Tricarico

Yeah.

It's crushing to think about after.

Oh, my god.

Yeah.

So COVID, for him and others on the spectrum, that's when Anthony was diagnosed officially with depression.

Got it.

So when COVID hit and he could no longer be out and about with his friends, playing free, fishing, seeing them, interacting with them, he fell into a deep depression.

It's very difficult to get him out of bed.

Fishing is something he shared with his buddies and I shared with him, but it's very difficult to convince a high-functioning autistic child that it's okay to go past the police tape to go fishing.

They're very rules-oriented.

The worst, right?

So eventually, we were able to convince him, like, hey, we're not going to get in trouble.

Let's go fishing and stuff.

But yeah, between COVID, the teenage boy, and this particular diagnosis, that has so much to do with the pull.

Like, that percentage is shocking.

and also he was in a psych ward right before he took his life and he was never the same after that the withdrawal from the medication got him shaking and just in his own head you know i i do when you say i know i'm you know i'm so i'm so sorry and it's it's something that that i've come to understand stays with folks i mean you said your dad was 60 like that that that

perseverance of those ideas in their heads, if you will, just continues.

And we want and need to be able to help them.

And Anthony's situation was very similar.

I could remember walking out of the mental health facility and to just see him take in the fresh air and the trees and