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It's funny, I agree with almost everything you said, EXCEPT that depression equals failure. That's where your logic doesn't actually follow.
If you're depressed, one possibility is that you're coddling yourself about something. Or that you're using it as an excuse for failing at something or to do something.
I'm deeply disquieted by absolutes like "you are a failure". I've failed at things. I fail plenty. But the minute I AM a failure, that becomes my next excuse for future failures.
I believe that ALL people are whole, complete, and perfect, AND that each of us has barriers to the expression and experience of that wholeness, completeness, and perfection. I'd much rather go to work on those barriers (my own and others') than brand people as "failures" because of the particular barrier they've constructed for themselves.
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