It did, although in retrospect I'm mostly just sad over the number of friendships that got destroyed because depression and social anxiety are a really bad combo for relationships. But now I know my neurochemistry is just really messed up, and I have drugs for it, and it's generally a lot easier to be rational about it, even when I'm feeling lousy. Being able to say 'Okay, I'm really upset because of X thing, and while it's bad, at least some of it is just in my head and it's not actually the end of the world' is remarkably liberating. Still haven't figured out the 'I want to sleep fourteen hours a night every night' thing, but...working on that one :P

Good you can deal with it, then :) And hey, if talking about it helps, go for it!

It's really true, and a point one of my cell bio friends who is very fond of single-celled organisms points out - the more parts there are in the system, the easier it is for something to go wrong. Like human spines - the configuration we have worked fine when we were monkeys using all four limbs equally, but switch to bipedalism, and there's a lot of stresses on it that, that it has problems handling. But unfortunately we can't go back and re-evolve something that works better.

(is my biology major showing through yet XD?)