[greensnake]

As someone who is dealing with a similar issue right now, I actually felt inclined to create a throwaway account just to comment on this. It's easy to find all kinds of talk about depression online, but that talk is less helpful when (in my case) the cause of the depression is at least in part due to difficulties in terms of sustaining normal friendships with other people in real life. And, I might also add, having nobody to talk to in real life about these kinds of issues. The last thing I need to be doing to fight depression is to continue sitting indoors at my computer reading more articles on the internet.

[amelius]

As a nerd, I also had problems finding "normal" friends. Not anymore. How I solved this:

- Enroll in a soccer team

- Take tango dancing classes

From there, it just went naturally. Of course, your situation might be different, but indeed staying alone at home doesn't help much.