Yes, you are right. Depression all by oneself is bad enough. It is normal to push people away when you are in a bad mood. Perhaps you are like me, more easier to feel anonymous and type on a computer than communicate your feelings in real life. Many people are like me, I tend to think. I don't see what's wrong with coming onto this site, why would they make this site if we weren't allowed to go on and do that, write on here and communicate with others. It should help us. Maybe not everybody even has a supportive family. So that would then make sense, right? Why would we be on here if we had family to go to? It's hard to trust people to say for those who are "friends" how do you trust them? I don't put much if any trust in other people I see around me in real life. Are you truly depressed if you can just easily go to your family or group of friends for support then come on here? That is what I personally don't get.