:-(

My best friend committed suicide on Friday. So.......:-(

I was such a bad friend, I didn't talk to her on the weekend cause I was a little mad she didn't come to my birthday lunch. And I hadn't visited her in a couple of weeks (she couldn't drive and she lived in the other side of town so I always visited her instead of her coming to see me as it takes like 2 hours on the bus). I don't know if it would have made any difference if I had visited her more recently - I mean she didn't try to call me or anything. But I can't help but wish I had called her on the weekend :-(
I really didn't think she was in any danger - she had been doing really well lately, got a high distinction in the one uni subject she did last semester and doing fine this semester. She moved out of the group home because she didn't need the support as much (she had severe depression and bipolar). She got a distinction in her grade 6 piano exam. And the few other times she felt like she might do something silly, she got herself checked into hospital. So I don't really know what happened this time. I hope to find out more at the funeral on Monday.

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I'm really sorry to hear this.
Remember, don't blame yourself, that will only make things worse.
Stay strong.
 
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Oh, that's very sad... Now that we know how this happened, hope that they can clean this story out to see how she came out of her locked room.
 
My sincere condolences to the person who took her own life. I'm really sorry to hear about what happened to her. Hopefully they will find out how she managed to escape the hospital and why she escaped. There might've been something that could've been very stressful for her. I have heard that some psychiatric hospitals aren't that very well locked down and some of the men that have mental health issues that are in there, sometimes try to rape other patients. While they do try to prevent all of that, sometimes the rooms don't have locks on their doors to allow the patients to lock themselves in (but the staff can still unlock it though).

Ensuring that the patients are safe and protected at all times is something that all psychiatric hospitals always do. I'm sure after this, they will do more of an effort to ensure that all patients are safe and protected at all times.
 

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