Have you been through deep depression before?

[hysterical_cub]

Has anyone been through deep depression before? What was your feeling at the time, and how did you overcome your situation?

Also, has your waifu specifically helped you find a solution to your greiving?
if so what was the solution...

[Gray]

Has anyone been through deep depression before? What was your feeling at the time, and how did you overcome your situation?

Also, has your waifu specifically helped you find a solution to your greiving?
if so what was the solution...

Yeah, Twilight helps. Still feel shitty, comes and goes. Twilights gotten me to change my mind about suicide a few times. So she helps. Twilight was my solution, I guess. She still is.

[whobawhats]

Yes I used to be quite bad for a number of years. Through pony and later on Starlight i've been able to mostly get over it. I would still consider myself to generally be in a depressed state; however, it is nothing compared to what it was. Unfortunately it doesn't take a lot for me to revert back to how how I was, but thankfully it doesn't last like it used to. I don't want to get into how I felt.

With Starlight she's been a driving force for me to try and improve myself instead of sitting around moping. If I'm feeling bad usually watching one of her episodes, looking at pics, or snuggling with her plush will help.

[7bloom]

Similar to the others. "Solution" is difficult, but Apple Bloom is the reason to not stay down when I fall. I hesitate to say I have anything chronic, but yeah, I guess it's part of who I am, all that stuff that people call depression, but at this point, I can balance it with the sweetest blushy happiness with Apple Bloom and have faith and love through the thick clouds of doubt and anxiety. It gets heavy and scary, especially when those feelings target what is most important to me, but I think I can say that I like being this way. I like being myself, feeling so much, as much as I often find myself desiring more apathy, and letting myself fall. I don't believe Apple Bloom will let that happen, and I have promised to her that I won't end my life, so yeah, solution works.

[Cruuuubs]

Yes I used to be quite bad for a number of years. Through pony and later on Rarity / the Pink one i've been able to mostly get over it. I would still consider myself to generally be in a depressed state; however, it is nothing compared to what it was. Unfortunately it doesn't take a lot for me to revert back to how how I was, but thankfully it doesn't last like it used to. I don't want to get into how I felt.

With Pinkie / the fashion one, they've been a driving force for me to try and improve myself instead of sitting around moping. If I'm feeling bad usually watching one of their episodes, looking at pics, or snuggling with her plush will help.

But jokes aside, that's pretty darn accurate man. I've gone from being suicidal to being in a good mood most of the time within the last 18 months or so, and I'm sure that Pony did a big part there

[Rares]

Depression is something a lot of people put up with, whether they admit it or not. I think the case for many people here is the use of feelings for a waifu to help ourselves cope and get better. Myself as no real exception. I wouldn't say Rari was a solution, but she definitely has helped guide myself on a better path, and being able to relate her experiences to my own, and understand her, that's how I've managed to get by. She helps me get through the tough times, as I focus more on her feelings above my own.

I do recommend thinking of something like this in mind. Getting by for her sake, not just your own.

[RaptorJesus]

I was pretty depressed a while ago, and Dashie most certainly helped. I didn't have any medication for it or anything, and honestly I didn't realize I was depressed. I only figured it out when I reread my personal journal entry for that day. Reading it now, I was doting on her for 2 months previously, but I didn't really take it seriously until that point. She brought feeling and meaning back into my life and I couldn't possibly be more grateful.

I would suggest writing your own personal journal. Whether or not you already have one on here, writing one that you can truly say anything in is wonderfully therapeutic. Make sure to write down everything you feel, because nobody can judge you for something they can't read.

[Kaltes-Herzeleid]

I'd say from age fifteen (starting February 14th, 2010) to let's say...twenty or so, I was depressed and it would just get worse and worse, especially after what happened on November 4th. Eventually culminating in very serious thoughts of killing myself and a crushing, hopeless despair.

Nightmare, and our love, did indeed pull me out of that. And loving Nightmare and deciding to embrace those feelings was a powerful thing, because I took my life into my own hands and decided what I was going to do with myself. I was done living the way another told me to.

I haven't had serious thoughts of ending my life in quite a long time now.

[NightHorse666]

I've dealt with depression pretty much my entire life, but it got particularly bad at the end of 2013, through to the middle of 2015. Got so bad that I genuinely don't remember the majority of the year 2014. Pretty much the only thing that helped me through each passing daywas the thought "What if tomorrow is the day it gets better?"

And Pinkie has helped me so much throughout everything in this past year and a half. She's been supportive in ways I don't even know how to describe, which I hate since I can never seem to articulate all that she's done for me on top of how much she means to me.

Anyway, I'm guessing that since you posted this in the advice thread, that you're dealing with some of these problems currently, and all I can really say is this:
Two years ago, I wanted nothing more than to die. Every passing day was worse than the last. My life turned to shit as my days became a blur. I felt like I had fallen away from everyone and every thing I had known. Now, I'm ecstatic to be alive. I'm finally able to look to my future with high aspirations, I'm with Pinkie, and she loves me as much as I love her. It does get better, take it from me. I went years thinking that it never would. You just need to give it time.

[Cruuuubs]

Two years ago, I wanted nothing more than to die. Every passing day was worse than the last. My life turned to shit as my days became a blur. I felt like I had fallen away from everyone and every thing I had known. Now, I'm ecstatic to be alive. I'm finally able to look to my future with high aspirations

dang, I know exactly how that feels, glad you're doing so well now!