Opening up about being mentally ill

[Whateverist]

I've put a picture of myself along with a journal entry I just wrote to kind of personalize the whole thing and kind of give you a glimpse as to what I experience, while also giving you a face to put with it, in order to say "damn the stigmas, this is who I am and what I deal with."  

So I was kind of looking for suggestions or feedback from people here.

I think it could be helpful to someone experiencing depression for the first time to realize that, though not welcome, it is something with which one can cope.  It might also help people who have never experienced clinical depression to realize that it really is an illness which can at times overwhelm those who deal with it, but that there are those who can work around it too.