I don't presume to fully understand someone's inner struggles through a mere article online. Nevertheless, my condolences. What I find curious is the trend to

I don't presume to fully understand someone's inner struggles through a mere article online. Nevertheless, my condolences. What I find curious is the trend to isolate some condition and how it is not part of some self-defined 'normal me,' thereby abating the guilt for the whole of 'me'. Unfortunately, in my view, mental conditions like this are very much part of a person (that's precisely why it is so difficult to get rid of such conditions) and thus there is no reduction of said guilt for the 'me'. I recall the age-old defense of abusive behaviors: "it's the hormones, not me." No. Those hormones are very much part of you. And they are your moral and physical responsibility. Nevertheless, my intellectual model of what constitutes a self does not preclude me from extending my sympathy and condolences to the author. I wish him embrace and tame the inner demon. I wish him peace.