I could have written this, but I don't communicate as well as you do. I don't do anything for the recognition (I don't do much at all, truth be told, but I used to). So this thing that's going on (this...form of self-harm) was a part of me before depression hit. It has definitely increased with the depression, but I suppose that it is, in a way, a trait maybe, of those of us who have this illness.

Perhaps we are predisposed to depression??