Dark night of the soul Options

I have reason to believe i am going trough the dark night of the soul. Wich is fine and all that, but it causes me to feel like shit for the moment.
Everything, even death, seems hollow and boring to me.
I feel this intens feeling of unhappynes, sadness, melancholy if you will.
If you want a complete description of what exactly it is, google has good results.

Could anyone provide me with some guidance, so that i may awake from this night a well rested man? Or perhaps some real life experiences, its always more interesting than regurgitated googleisms. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fie.gif)

Actually I went through something very similar not too long ago. I associated it moreso with susto than the dark night of the soul. I lost over 40 pounds and became so secluded I hardly left my home. I gave up my studies and basically lost all will to thrive. The only way I could get over it, or through it, was to do so willfully. I ended friendships with people that thrived on my turmoil and I picked up my books again. It took over a year and a half to get back to where I was. I really was a hollowed husk of who I was before. Some of it was spiritual, some personal, and some due to a certain psychic vamp. l

ah, i went trough that to, but i do not think that is really the dark night. I went trough that before i picked up magick.

The dark night is an unmotivated time, hollow inside, yet fearless. No reason to thrive, yet thriving anyway. Going trough the motions and feeling empty while doing it.

It is the result of spiritual growht, of disataching from the material and losing the ego. Most people live for material things. When this desire is destroyed, and the material craving subdues, there is nothing left sometimes. I believe it is mainly the cause of unguided growth. And the love of life seems to vanish, because there is nothing left to live for.

One must search for love then, that oneness with the universe to fill up the void. One must fall like a raindrop in the ocean of life, and become part of the flow. However, this must be realised.

Correct meditation and insight can prevent the dark night in many, however some may thing they have shed the material world and experience the dark night unexpectadly, then they are surprised and lost until they can realise this truth.

This is a hard problem to overcome, since there is no psychologist or friend in the world who understands this, since material people never get to feel the emptyness when there material desires are destroyed.

It is as i read a few posts back, the ego seems to be necesary, however it is not, if you get past this dark night. However, be warned, it is possible to experience the dark night over and over again, when you go back to material desires.