*trigger warning - attempted suicide*

Hi there, I'm new around here. I'm mostly here for myself (I have bipolar 1 and generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks) but I'm struggling a little at the moment with something one of my best friends told me.

Some background, I met this friend a month or 2 ago. We actually met on OkCupid. Both of us have just recently gotten through some big relationship problems and found that we click really well as friends. (We both are romantically interested in each other too but there are some problems there. But that's a whole other post) We've gotten really close over the time that we've known each other. Many late nights spent talking about everything and nothing.

He and I both have mental health issues and that's one of the things we've bonded over. I knew that he had been suicidal in the past, and right at the beginning of our friendship, he went into the hospital psych ward for a while. But the other night he told me about the suicide attempts he had made.

Mostly I'm glad he told me. I'm glad he feels like he can open up to me that much. But he told me in detail about what he did, and it's been getting inside my head. When I think about it, I get depressed and anxious. I am a very empathetic person, and other people's emotions tend to affect me a lot. I think about him being that bad off and it makes my heart hurt. And I think about not having him in my life and I get really anxious.

I know there's really not much I can do about these feelings. Like I said, I'm ultimately glad he told me. I just felt like I needed to get it out a little.