The thinker/questioner in me, while reading ICOT’s above post, made me wonder if there are any Gedolim, Rabbonim who were open about personal mental illness of any kind. I find it hard to believe that there are no Gedolim/Rabbonim with personal experiences in this area.
If we’d like the community at large to look upon sufferers with dignity, we need some of our role models to be forthcoming about any personal experiences they might have had with bouts of depression, and how they managed.. etc. I think it would be a great help to sufferers.