And you have talked about your own battle with depression. I would think that the Web would be an absolutely wonderful place to do this. The new antidepressants are a great help, but the main thing is to not be alone.
Depression is just ghastly.
There's no ennobling quality to it, except that having endured it is a very brave thing. I don't think it was. I was too sick to write at the time, though I did notice the writing changed afterward. I didn't write about depression, but something had opened up and it just went a little deeper. I can't quite track the trajectory of that, but I don't think you come out of it unchanged.