It depends on my general mood. I can see how my personality, what I perceive as "me" is partly shaped by mental illness when I'm in a better mood. In these situations I wouldn't want to completely eliminate my mental illness because as you said, it's also a part of me. At the moment and for most of the last four years I would take the cure in a heartbeat though. The problems it'd caused me just far outweigh it being part of my personality in my opinion.

I understand the notion though. The best therapist I ever had told me that living with your problems should always be the objective, not trying to cut them out of your mind.