Do you know what your real personality is?

This is an idea I just recently encountered in reading Kramer's Against Depression, and I'm grateful for this discussion of your experience. After much struggle, I came to realize some years ago that my whole reality was not defined by depression symptoms. It's a key element in getting through each day that I hold onto that ray of consciousness that can tell depressed thinking to stop - there's more to me than you're telling me. But it's another step to think that there is a whole different personality that can emerge once the disease is successfully treated. Unfortunately, over many decades of different treatments, I haven't had a lasting recovery so I haven't had that experience of getting to know who I really might be. But I keep working at it.

Thanks for this post - it offers a hopeful way of thinking about the future. 

Do motivation and color preference have anything to do with your genuine personality? This is a really vague article.  In short:  depression fogs your true personality.