an old professor of mine who suffered from recurrent depression told us once that only when he accepted that recurrent depression was part of who he was (not entirely who he was) did his treatment began to show positive effects. He said he even went from accepting who he was, to actually loving who he was most of the time!

This sounds so sweet, adoring who you are no matter what - which should actually enable us to use our full potentials, and even 'negative' traits for positive purposes (' ' because I believe that negativity and positivity are just artificial constructs made by non-absolutely-perfect common mindset :D) And that is what I actually need to work on I guess. :)