Pit versus Wilderness

I want to express that when I speak of life in the pit, it is not to be confused with life in the wilderness.  They are not the same place even though some symptoms of both may be the same. 
A wilderness is a barren, deserted land left in its natural state.  Figuratively speaking when Christians refer to a wilderness experience they are referring to a circumstance of loss, disappointment, heartbreak etc. The idea of being in a wilderness is that is should be a temporary junction between where you are coming from and where you are going.  Like the children of Israel who travelled from Egypt through the wilderness to get to the Promise Land. In this place you can experience lonely and sadness as you work through whatever you are going through.
A pit however is different.  Scriptures compares it to Hell.  You may have heard of the bottomless pit. All throughout scripture David speaks of his soul being caught up in the pit, a place of so much loneliness and despair until he thought he would surely die.  In the pit there is no vision... And without vision one is doomed to perish.  Medically speaking a pit is often a place of depression. Of course a wilderness experience and lead you into a pit.  Often this happens.  Someone losses someone  and the weight of the loss gets so heavy until they eventually falls into a pit. 
Maybe my pit journey started from a wilderness experience.  Maybe I dealt too long on the losses I had in life and it eventually pushed me into this place, but I am telling you that both places are different.  In Bible days they would roll a stone over a pit and use it as a dungeon for prisoners. A pit is a burial place... it is where you enemies hope you will die.  It is where they want to silence you and hope that you will never live to speak another word. But it is also a place where God can have His Glory out of your life.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up , and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Psalm 69:15 (KJV).