JustBen, that post actually made more sense when it was a quasi-advertisement.

I'm skeptical about depression being "curable." Maybe I've just heard too many times about the studies showing that if you have more than one depressive episode, you're likely to be stuck with it. Seriously, though, I think you can get a lot better, but wouldn't you always have an awareness of how bad things can get? Am I just being pessimistic?

And darned if I know how I'll ever be able to look back at this and say, "Gee, I'm indebted to the period in my life where I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be alive." I guess anything's possible.