I can completely understand and relate.
Although I can manage day to day life and have more optimism for the future, I fear that the intense episodes of depression and anxiety I have experienced, as well as the prolonged periods taking antidepressants, have had a long-term impact on my personality and intelligence. I feel limited, my imagination reduced. Where quick-wittedness and animation might've been before, these days are replaced by dull, humourless, forgetful plodding.

I wonder if it's part of the recovery process, though, that perhaps I'm only half way there and in order to get back to "me", or my concept of it, I need to address my thought processes more closely than I have yet dared to. It's more comforting to think that, than to accept this change is permanent and negative, I think...