At our meeting the other night someone asked "why does depression make you feel all alone"? Silence. There was total silence in the room as we all struggled to answer her. And in fact no one really did. It isn't that "depression makes you feel the aloneness", rather  it is a symptom of being in a depressed state. It wasn't the feeling of being alone that made you depressed, the depression gives you the feeling of being alone in the world. Now hows that for trying to understand what's going on! No wonder depression is such a hard disease to understand!