If it is depression, I isolate myself. If I am having a difficult time coping with something and I am not in a depressive state, I seek out people. That is what I always used to do before depression hit me.

Now that I suffer from depression it is very very hard to make contact, but I try to force myself to do so because I know that isolation is unhealthy. Even when I do manage, it is not the same kind of naturally flowing talk I used to be able to have, very forced and mostly evasive.