FWIW, I've been in contact via the private messages on Facebook with a friend who I went to music school with who has been dealing with a lot of depression and addiction issues himself. I'm not really even sure how we wound up messaging each other or getting into deep conversation, but I have to say that if I had closed my account, we wouldn't have been exchanging these messages. Our issues aren't exactly the same, but there are a lot of similarities...it seems he dug further into addiction whereas I dug further into self-hate, but the good news is that he was telling me about how he's been in therapy for a couple years and on antidepressants and going to meetings for his addictions, and is seeing light at the end of the tunnel and living a more or less steady life with only occasional days of, "I just can't do this anymore" that he's able to handle. So, because of Facebook, I've been able to talk to somebody whose life, school, and career (if you can call music a career) path have all been very similar to mine who seems to be successfully battling a lot of the same stuff I've been going through.

Still, I'm sure a break could do anybody good.