Personally, I'd like to think my depression isn't a part of me. Sometimes it does feel like it is, but even when I'm at my most depressed, I can still maintain a part of what I would be without my depression. What gets me through is saying that I will be that person again, the person I want to be. So, depression isn't me. Because there's always the possibility that I could have been born without depression, that I wouldn't have it at all. Who would I be then? I know that person is somewhere deep inside of me.