This hits home so much, it hurts

@b95  
Huh, that’s odd. I have talked to three severely-depressed people within the past thirty minutes. If you would like, you can PM me to talk about what is bothering you before the long night comes again.

But after the dawn comes the sunset, and I am sick of getting through the nearly endless night again, just to see the day fade one more time.

The fact that he was able to write all of this and then finish it off with the last two panels actually does give this cliche phrase a bit more depth

Whenever I’m feeling depressed (which feels like it happens every damn day at this point) about how I’ll probably never be successful just because I don’t have any damn motivation to do anything with my life and the very idea of having even the most basic responsibilities essentially cripples me with fear, I think of this picture.
 
Just the existence of RD’s panel there makes me feel so much better somehow. I hear so much about people who are depressed because they have shitty situations that they want to go out and do something about and turn their life around but can’t, and it just reinforces the idea to me that your self-worth comes from your motivation to actually do shit with your life, which makes me feel even more worthless and turns me off from talking to people about my problems because I’m afraid people are just going to tell me it’s my own fault for being afraid of responsibility.
 
But then I think of this picture, and I remember I’m not alone in this. There are people just like me, who are so afraid of just being an adult that it just sends them into depression, and somehow that gives me hope. At the very least, I realize I shouldn’t be afraid to talk about my problems, and to go seek actual help for the way I’m feeling.
 
I can’t think of a good way to end this so I’ll just leave it at that.

The Fluttershy one is right. After a few hundred years, nobody will know who you are, and everyone who ever knew who you were will be dead.
 
Also, do it.

Then, my night lasts forever.

jesus christ weaver

Holy shit. Those Rainbow Dash and Luna ones hit ridiculously close to home for me.

@Tranquil Night  
I keep getting messages about this post, and all they do is make me sadder, because it reminds me of, well… Me. I really don’t like having to wake up again every day and whenever I feel too down in the dumps, I start to question if I was even worth taking up the space thousands of other people take up. In this post, I feel like I relate to Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Big Mac, and Trixie. Whenever I get an electronic or a toy or something taken away from me, I start to question if I was even meant to have it in the first place, if I even deserve half the things I get. I feel like a complete and utter screw-up at everything I do, and I catch myself eyeing the knives more often than not. I know all of this sounds like a cry for attention, and that’s literally the response I get whenever I try to tell somebody about it. I’m literally holding back my tears as I’m writing this and I can’t even tell anyone because they either think that I’m making it up, I’m being overly-dramatic, or I’m fishing for compliments.

@Background Pony #9935  
Good luck. If it makes you feel better, depression is not as rare as you think it is; about four months ago, I came out with it to my school counselor and she told my parents. It turned out that two of my three brothers have depression and anxiety, and my father used to have it as well. Also, as a statistic from an anonymous survey I have seen, about one in four people admitted to having it at some point in their lives. I can guarantee that some people would have lied about it, so it is well over one in four people.
 
Though you may think that I don’t care about some random person on the internet, I do and I will help them if it could potentially turn their life around. Seriously, good luck to you and to anybody else struggling with depression. I hope you feel better soon.
 
Lastly, I am not going to lie about this. I am going to be as truthful as possible. When you come out with your depression, the people that love you are going to be hurt. However, they will be hurt because you didn’t ask them for help sooner. I know that it is hard to tell somebody else about what you struggle through, but please do it. You either have to struggle with hiding it daily, or you can tell somebody and not have to hide it anymore.

@Background Pony #9935  
If you find yourself relating to all these characters compared to one or two from a few years back, then you absolutely should try to find people that are willing to lend an ear to you. Depression hates sympathy and will trick you with any insecurity you have to make you believe your feelings aren’t worth talking about. Don’t give in, find a support group or a therapist, and work toward getting help.
 
I sincerely wish you good luck if you do.

I saw this image a long while back, and I wasn’t able to relate to more than one or two. Three tops. Looking at this now, I’m finding myself able to relate with Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Spike, Big Mac, and to some degree, Luna and Trixie. And my problem is, I don’t want to really talk to anyone else about it, simply because I don’t see the need to make them feel like shit, and I don’t want pity either. So instead, I end up just making myself feel like a sad sack of shit, stuck between wanting to cry, but can’t, and end up doing nothing to better myself.  
Funny how that all works, huh?  
@Tranquil Night  

That’s a decent way to sum it up.

Sadly, I experience Twilight’s, Rarity’s, Rainbow Dash’s, Fluttershy’s, Luna’s, and Big Macintosh’s thoughts on a sometimes daily basis. Depression sucks because people do not go around saying that they have or have had it, so you believe you are a freak because nobody else seems to know what you have gone through. As I am writing this, I have gotten over the apex of my depression, but I can tell that I am relapsing back into it. If I had to summarize depression to a non-sufferer, I would say:
 
It is a point in your life where some people get to where they lose their sense of direction in life and have no idea what to do. Depression is a swamping feeling that makes you see the bad in everything, making you conclude that what you are doing is pointless and a waste of energy.
 
Seeing the simple message in this comic strip actually made me cry. I want to get past this depression, but I have no idea how. I am in therapy now so I am working on it but the end of depression seems like a long shot. I realize that this is incredibly late, but well done on the art.

For some reason, I keep reading everyone’s lines in Rainbow Dash’s voice from Rainbow Dash Presents. That is, before the last two panels.

I’m with @Background Pony #9146 on this. I guess the “misery loves company” cliche is true, because I only found the first ten panels uplifting.
 
..better go take my bupropion before someone calls me edgy…

@4574  
They certainly are.  
Primarily because I learned to let things go.

@That One Guy  
I hope things are better for you now!

@Joseph Raszagal  
Hah…  
You surmised all I would have said.
 
I looked back at my comment from ages ago here - and man, am I of a different mindset now. It’s impressive to me how much I’ve changed perspective. I wonder how many others go through a similar experience.

@Background Pony #9146  
Rather than just post a picture mocking you, I’d like to say this:
 
Words of hope for a depressed man or woman are always important. Yes, we may well have heard them all before, but that doesn’t detract from the point that there are still many people in desperate need of hearing them.
 
Because many don’t. Lots of people go through life without the encouragement that anybody cares about their plight; that anybody gives a damn about them.
 
Sometimes, the words might sound empty, like they’re ringing from a bell that’s cracked, but the fact of the matter is that there are people that care. There are people that give a damn.
 
I’m one of them. And rather than call you edgy or some shit like that, I’d rather extend my hand. Because if you’ve given up on words of encouragement, then somebody needs to extend a hand before you do something that, not you, but someone else will terribly regret. And I don’t want to see that happen.
 
Sure, words are just words, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still often sincere. Keep that in mind, yo. Sometimes, every once in a great while, people do actually forget to be awful and they really do want to help.

@Background Pony #9146  
That reads like it came from a Myspace page that has an Evanescence song and pictures like this.
 

@Background Pony #9146  

@Background Pony #9146  

@Background Pony #9146  
Get out of here sasuke

@Background Pony #9146  

 
…holy toledo, get some therapy, man.