"Wouldn't it be neat to make some significant accomplishments that people would recognize as valuable, to the point that people would wonder how someone plagued with depression could do so much?"

Doesn't sound grandiose to me, Wendy. To me it just sounds like needing validation, that even though we are sick, we can still overcome the illness and live a whole life!

It's not any more grandiose than say, Christopher Reeve struggling to survive something that should have killed him, or leg amputees that will still run a marathon, climb a mountain or continue to ski. Depression can either put you in a vegetative state or we can work past it.

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