People need people. The greatest friend of depression is solitude. And you don’t have to live on your own to experience it. All you have to do is cut away from other people. Many people don’t tell others how they feel. Or they feel that there is no point – i.e. that they won’t be understood properly. But we should never ‘detach’ ourselves from people. Of course we will need a little solitude now and again – time to think. However, the reality is that us humans need to reach out to others. We need to re-ignite friendships that have fizzled out over time. We need to make new friendships too. We need to be open-minded and less judgmental when it comes to others. All of us need to get involved with community through volunteering, clubs, activities etc. If the greatest friend of depression is solitude ( where you just listen to your own self-damning theories without interruption or without the voice of reason being in the room with you) then the greatest enemy of self-inflicted negativity is distraction. We get lots of distraction in being social!