A few years ago I was part of a chamber music performance here at the clinic. Besides me there was a violinist, a violist, and a cellist. All were patients at the time; I'm the only one still in treatment, the other three discharged already.

The violinist, who is in medical school (very difficult), is a good email correspondent and has stayed in touch with me from that day to this. The viola player responded to some emails but the responses have gotten fewer and fewer. The cello player did not respond at all to my email.

This week I was told, third- or fourth-hand, of a suicide attempt on the part of the cello player; I was told two other things:
that this happened some time ago, people here are just now hearing about it, and
this patient is a twin, whose brother committed suicide --
and the former patient made the unsuccessful attempt using the same method as the twin brother. It was not possible for me to ask what method that was.

THis former patient is/was a very good musician, practiced diligently and had been well-taught; he could have gotten work in music.
I've only scratched the surface here:
there is more which I will not tell; he has a lot of problems.

Talk about staying afloat while others don't ... it's uncanny.