I've always thought so, yes. I have never been able to delude myself from the unsavory aspects my life and life in general. A bunch of my friends from high school were the same way, and each one of us suffered from depression.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell