Whether or not depression manifested before knowing about meditation the solution in getting rid of it is still the same. Keep your energies up.
This is the ''learning curve'' of meditation in my opinion. That no matter how much you feel like failing, you keep going. Because there is no giving up. If you do indeed try to give up, be it for a week or a month, eventually you're going to be crawling back to Satan and start meditating all over. Again and again and again, until you stop tripping on your feet.
It does not matter how badly you feel. Even if the mental pain is so severe that you want to rip your innards out, You. Keep. Meditating. There is no such thing as ''too severe'' especially for an SS. A lesson I think everyone here eventually learns
The severity of the depression someone is feeling is defined by that same person. No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to be depressed. You put energy towards feeling depressed and do not do anything to remedy it... The results speak for themselves. Basically, a person is depressed as long as they want to be depressed.
Instead to completely detach yourself from it, throw it out of your mind and know that it is not you, triple your aura of protection, do banishings, use positive affirmations. If need be a change of the social group you're hanging around. A change in lifestyle (example: starting to go running every day), freeing the soul workings It is that easy. Just pick yourself up
So, yeah... it is not rocket science and it can be solved practically with a snap of the fingers, provided you want to and it is made ridiculously easy when you are SS. A lot of people who are depressed and/or in pain find it easier to be in that state simply because ''this is the way it's always been'' for them. And change for the positive seems alien.
Truth is that pain of depression that has been experienced by someone is meaningless and worthless. In a sense that it does not serve any higher purpose. It does not lead anywhere in contrast to lifting weights and 'feeling the burn' which is positive pain or the birth of a child, again, positive pain that actually leads somewhere. So you have people clinging on to the pain because if they let go then ''what's the point'' right? What was the point in going through all that pain if it didn't go anywhere?
That's just it, there was no point, there it no point in it... So one can either sit there in the corner wailing about it or stand up and start to gradually fix themselves. And those who give up? (kill themselves) well those unfortunate folk will just reincarnate and go through aaall of that pain all over again, only the next time they will not know why they are suffering. So I ask... Is there really any choice in the matter?
Depression has nothing to offer. It's sole existence is to screw you over and keep you knocked down. That's just a tiny glimpse into the mental aspect of it.
tl;dr: Step 1: Keep your energies up Step 2: Detach yourself mentally from any and all depression. Just let go. Step 3: Go to town with positive affirmations, workings and whatnot.
That ''actual guidance'' enough for you?
Source:
Depression's an old friend
Helped/Helping people get over depression.