once more with attitude

Writing is a way of manifesting the struggle. It's a corresponding struggle. Depression makes your thoughts end in negation. You want to write but every idea you have seems inadequate. 

But you can write anyway, in defiance. Depression inhibits expression and expression defies depression. That sense of connection you get when you interact with other people in meaningful ways is quite simply the opposite of depression.

As recorded in the GROW 'blue book': 

As egocentricity is the cause of stunted growth or disintegrating personal life, decentralisation from self and participation in a community of persons is the very process of recovery or personal growth.

What strikes me about that quote is how it doesn't just say that participation in a community is helpful to your recovery or will have a positive effect. It says it is the process of recovery and growth. That in itself is actual recovery.