Success despite Clinical Depression

Alastair Campbell has begun to speak openly about his experience with alcoholism and clinical depression. Last month he revealed that aside from a "work-induced, drink-induced, pressure-induced psychotic breakdown" at the age of 28 while working as an editor at a newspaper which led him to enter recovery from alcoholism, he also recently suffered recurring episodes of clinical depression while working at No.10 Downing Street.

It's good to see more and more highly functioning, incredibly successful people come out and speak openly about their clinical depression and their trials with mental illness.