Hey Corvus, thanks for sharing this, I'm glad you felt comfortable posting it. Similar things have come up here before (we're all growing and changing all the time and communication is a key part of that, and with a close-knit community you find things like get posted).

I liked this bit a lot:

And I learned that the world isn't as black and white as I thought it was, and that some problems are harder to solve than they may seem to at first. I suddenly realized that other people also sometimes have to deal with this, and that lead me to acknowledge a whole other dimension to people's personalities that I had never really considered before.

Which is true, everybody has baggage or a struggle that they are going through. What we see on social media or what we see in passing are the curtains, it's only until you become very close with someone that these issues present themselves and people feel comfortable enough talking about them. Every person has their own problems, and it's important to remember that and I'm glad you've had that realization.

I went through a lot of the stuff you've gone through and just graduated from university. But during my time I had some mental issues related to depression in particular and some bouts of anxiety with that and wasn't particularly suicidal, but would be okay with an accident. It's a tough place to be at, as you know, but I think you now have the mindset to know that states of mind like that will pass and how to constructively deal with those experiences.