I recently lost my roommate...to his own hand..He wrote me a letter that I received after the fact, and in it he told me that he was proud that I was trying to improve my life. He wrote a few other things as well, but nothing we wrote was anything he couldn't have just told me or talked to me about at any time. I have regrets that I never spoke to him about mental health related issues, and it's causing all the progress I've made in the last 6 months to regress.

These days my ideation is around 95% gone. Medication has been more successful than I ever imagined, and I'm starting to meet some of my goals. I started taking classes again after a long hiatus and as long as things go well I'll be returning to Engineering school soon. I still hate everything though. Self Confidence is really difficult to bring up even through successes it would seem. What's really getting me though is losing my best friend.

Anyone out there who is thinking about what you might write to a person, for them to receive at a point where you will no longer be able to see them. I want you to write those things down. And I want you to send those people those letters when they still have the opportunity to read it with you. Don't be afraid of what those people might think about what you have to say.