Hi Rebecca, My suggestion to you is that you don't leave it out....it is part of who you are and I could absolutely Identify with what you're saying when you mentioned that you're writing has gotten better as a result of it...I am a visual artist and i am now seeing the positive impace that decades of depression is having on my work, i can create and visualize with an intensity that i think would not have existed otherwise. When you look at people like Howard Hughes and Vincent Van Gogh just to name a couple, depression somehow impacted their lives to attain things the average untainted mind could not. Be who you are! Proclaim who you are! and walk in your Genius!