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Yer on a roll!  Helps to have some interesting and positive developments on the baseball diamond to respond to, doesn't it?  : )
Very interesting & succinct analysis of depression...  it tracks well with my own limited life experience.  Clearly you understand what Snell's mindset could be, or probably is...  Although I would guess that Wak's take with him will be less, 'We're going to make you a #1 pitcher again', and more, 'You've got great talent, we're going to help you make the most of it.  We're going to work our butts off, and have fun, and we're going to win'.  Less results-oriented goal setting, and more focus on the work and the process and letting the results take care of themselves. 
I've posted it before, but I'm not sure we understand how frustrating it could be to be a Pirates player.  You have a long and proud history, a beautiful ballpark, the local football team wins like crazy...  And your team is the laughingstock of baseball.  The AAA team for the teams that are actually playing to win.
Jack Wilson strikes me as a really affable, positive guy, and a heck of a baseball player.  Think he's happy to be a Mariner?  Check out what he was saying a month ago about the Pirates.
Different guys are going to respond to that situation differently.  Wilson was getting exasperated...  When you're a world-class athlete, you probably figure that after 9 years of playing that you'd at least taste winning a little bit. 
Snell is a different cat, and in a way its to his creadit that his situation frustrated him so much.