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Therapy Through Ponies · 4:52am Sep 11th, 2013
So, after a long day of social explosions, car trouble, and not being the best person I could be, a simple comment on a story was enough to turn my night around. An hour of work later, and I'm 1,300 words into the third chapter of Hooves Holding Hearts. Going back to Lyra and Bon Bon feels like old friends stopping by to help out.
I go back to Equestria because the ponies make things feel better. Does anyone else find themselves using ponies as therapy?
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To be honest, yes, writing is my therapy. I spent over two decades at the 1) level of writing before I started writing ponies, moving from 2) to 3) in an amazingly short year. Right now I'm hovering at around a 3.3, working up to a 3.4
1) I'm making something at least usable.
2) Hey, other people have read it and like it.
3) Wow, a *lot* of people have read it and like it.
4) I must be an amazing author
5) I am a god of writing.
MLP: FiM, and the community surrounding it, are, really, a very big reason why I haven't ended up, er....hurting myself.
It's a major bright point, and I certainly cherish it.
Ponies consistently get me to smile. I'm thankful for them and the fandom.
Ponies are great therapy. Especially watching/listening to the music from the show or reading some good ol' funny fanfics.
And yay! More Hooves Holding Hearts! Can't wait to see it~
Every second of every day!!
Yes. I need therapy and can't afford it so I use ponies instead.
They make me feel better.
The only exception is Sisterhooves Social due to triggeriness.
Progress on chapter 3?? Color me excited! Glad to know you're feeling better.
Yeah, Ponies is great for that. Bleh, Grammar.
But weirdly enough, back when I was just getting into ponies, I was also watching a lot of Slenderman videos, and FiM is basically the perfect cure for that paranoia.
I can't imagine anybody doesn't use them as therapy at least a little bit. Ponies, like a dog, are always waiting for you to come back to them, and they're always happy to see you. And who's never had a bad day and needed something carefree to distract them for a while?
Although I suppose that you can get the same effect from any form of entertainment, as long as you're sufficiently into it. But I suspect if your addiction was, for example, Slenderman videos, you'd have to be quite unhealthily obsessed for it to really work. And then you're probably just distracting yourself from the paranoia you're inflicting on yourself. So that's probably not a good life strategy.
Of course, I could say similar things about Project Horizons, and that's pony . . .
Yes.
I had a rough time in my life as a sophomore, about the time I wrote a story called "Catch For Us the Little Foxes". I was lonely, and alone. I was sad without any real way out (not that I was abandoned, but when I get sad I become reclusive.) I missed my parents, friends. I missed the love of my life (god I'm pretentious, huh?) and I was sick of it. So I sat in a coffee shop in campus, (I had no money for gas to go back, you see) and I began writing Foxes.
And it was indeed therapeutic. It helped me come to terms with being a little lonely, helped me give voice to what I was feeling and see it from outside myself. Writing helped me, yes, but... ponies. Ponies helped me a lot, and it was through them that I was able to bounce back as best as one as I can.
It's a nice distraction from my depressive episodes when they come up. I think that says a lot for it, since normally very little helps.
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Yup, it's now at 1.8K. Thanks for the vibes!
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That is the wonder of a little bit of escapism.
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When I used to coordinate the school science fair, I used to sing Art of the Dress as I ran around the science building while at the whims of the department. It felt particularly relevant.
Thanks for sharing so far, everybody. Even online, friendship really is magic.