I hate when the lonely feelings come. I am going through them now. Its like I know there is a functional world out there and I am living on it's fringes but not a participant. I don't understand how to be part of usual interactions...yet i deeply need and want to have close friends. ugh. depressive rough patch. How do you deal with it when the loneliness arrives in a depressive package? For me, that is the worst part of the depression.