Destiny saved my life 9 years ago.

Throwaway for obvious reasons.
I picked up d1 on release when I was 15, and I immediately loved the game, the art style, the lore, the gameplay were all perfect.
Over the next few years I played religiously, never missing a reset.
When I was 16 I decided to take my life due to personal real life events, and I planned to do it when I would turn 17.
As the date approached, I started shutting myself off from the world and stayed in my room, and that's when I started playing an unhealthy amount.
My family has money and I was a straight A student without studying ever, but I had no community, I had no friends, I felt I was nobody and I had nothing that made life genuinely worth living for. But I had Destiny, and that was enough to keep going for. In real life I felt like I was nobody but in the game I was somebody.
I made friends through raiding, joined a clan, would hang out with people who treated me extremely well in voice chats for hours, had hours upon hours of Iron Banner sessions every time it rolled around. I was one of the best players in the world (based on stats and multiple world records) and as silly as it may sound that gave me a reason to live, by carrying people through flawless raider/ToO I was able to feel like my life had meaning. This community was (and probably still is) extremely kind, not toxic and mature.
I spent countless hours on this sub.
As my birthday approached and I intended to go through with my plan, I realized I'd be missing Rise of Iron by a few weeks if I did it, so I decided to hold off just a bit more.
I was able to convince myself to stay alive a little longer just to wait for an expansion. Then I needed to grind that expansion, and then the next expansion/event was right around the corner, and eventually I stopped thinking about committing suicide at all.
Thanks to the kindness of my regular fireteams who I'll never forget, and the genuine connections I made with people I'll never meet in real life, I was able to stick around until I got better.
I can not overstate how meaningful this game will always be for me, or how much I appreciate the kindness I was afforded by my fellow guardians, I got my first ever birthday present from friends in this game (the taken king digital deluxe), and for the first time in my life I had friends.
I'm 26 now, and I'm 100% okay, I've done so much with my life that I wouldn't have ever been around for if I didn't randomly choose to buy this game cause it looked cool in the Playstation store and I was waiting for the next CoD to drop.

So to Bungie and DeeJ who fostered this community to be excellent, the community, and my old friends, thank you for saving my life.

Edit: some people are saying I'm posting this to negate the current negativity around the game or development, should be obvious to anyone mentally stable that that's not the case, but to be clear, I don't play D2 anymore since I wasn't able to keep up with the grinds nor was I enjoying doing my 85th weekly gambit tasks to keep up my arbitrary light level, most of my opinions about D2 would not be very popular here as I preferred the d1 y1 VoG armor system even with it's forever 29 issues, idek what is disliked about D2, but light level and too many items was why I ended up leaving, I just wanted to have a straightforward grind with a reasonable amount of weapons and a clear meta. Game got to complicated for me. This isn't to say others shouldn't enjoy it, it just stopped being what I enjoy and became a weekly chore.