I am a person who has suffered with depression her whole life! Including being suicidal.
Hey, me too! Suicide pride!
Wait...
In all seriousness, everybody has baggage. Nobody's pain is inferior or superior to that of another... If more people understood this we could have a much healthier world, but we're not quite there yet. Alas. Just make sure not to bottle up pain or try to destroy it with drugs and alcohol, or other addictions. Addictions only cover up pain, that pain will continue to expand and grow over time until you address it and just feel your way through it. Find a way to live with it, beat it, and get on top of it. Also, most importantly, I swear I have to scream this more loudly than anything else where it concerns pain.
Don't be ashamed of pain. Pain is something we evolved in four billion years of successive evolutionary steps, it's been with us in our genetic heritage long before we were a little shiny dot in Evolution's eyes. No one person is going to totally and utterly vanquish an integral part of their self-survival mechanism that's been bred into them since the dawn of mankind! Pain isn't your enemy either, not necessarily. Pain is an emotion, like any other emotion it serves a purpose. When you're in pain, address it, that's what pain is trying to do: It's your friend grabbing your shoulders and screaming "WAKE UP! SOMETHING IS IN ERROR! YOUR HEART ISN'T BEATING RIGHT MAN!" And I ain't gonna lie, addressing pain isn't always easy. Pain is also that friend that insists on speaking to you in
some old, dead language, and sometimes (s)he overreacts to the simplest of things, or even sometimes gives you false alarms.
Just find the best method for you to dealing with pain, and do it.
Being reclusive myself, I like to recoil from the outside world for a day or two when I'm in serious pain and just eat popcorn, watch movies, play games, and otherwise just focus on mending myself and living out a fantasy until I feel better. Another method I use is treating pain like a challenge to my masculinity:
I'm going to beat the shit out of you by being happy, you bastard. Find a way to address your pain and don't drown it out. It's there for a reason, even if it sometimes feels like life would be better without pain... After all, how would we learn about abusive people, or not burning our hands on stoves?