The fact you did manage to snap out of your madness at all is a feat, I'd say. It didn't look easy. You were suffering, anyone who cares for you would forgive it readily enough. Your life was valued higher.
I know little of magic or power, and that's for the best, from what I can tell. Best to avoid them. Not that avoiding it helped much for me, or for Frodo. I've never met the lad myself, but what I've read worries me.