My wife and I both suffered from depression, and Hell we still have our moments. It's not really something that goes away, but we help each other through it. She understands me more than anyone on the planet, and I hope that I understand her that much as well. For what it's worth, both of my ex's had depression issues too. Perhaps I'm attracted to it on some level, merely because I feel I can empathize with them more. Regardless, the answer's yes OP, and I honestly prefer to be with someone who has vices and issues to work through. I've never been with someone who had life handed to them on a silver platter and never had to struggle for anything, and I find the prospect of a relationship with such a person to be completely unattractive. Strife is part of life, and I want to share a life with someone who understands struggle and pain, has lived through it, and has come out the other side, not unscathed necessarily, but stronger and wiser for the experience. I think one of the things that attracted my wife to me in the first place was that we're both pessimists, if you can believe such a thing could attract two people, but I really do think it's true. Interestingly, our daughter is nothing like us in terms of that; she's about the happiest, most happy go luck, outgoing, extroverted person imaginable, and we're really quite pleasantly surprised at how much healthier her childhood has been than our's.