The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Loneliness

My question is similar to Roland's, but only taking part of it, here. I recently listened to an online sermon (Either Ravi Zacharias, or John Piper, since those are the ones I follow more closely) and it was mentioned that the cause of many types of depression rests at feelings of loneliness. Lloyd-Jones doesnt directly mention it in his book on Spiritual Depression, nor have i found many articles, even, online that address this from a non-post-modern-psychological point of view. Besides the fact that loneliness is a non-issue for those that are in Christ, it would be hard to deny that we sometimes face these feelings that we are completely alone, especially this time of year, when, as Roland says (paraphrased), we are around family and our idealized view of them doesn't measure up to reality. Or, if we can't/don't spend all the time we should with our respective family, and feel isolated whenever we do get together because of our own lack of effort to be who we need to be for/with our family. And, of course, for those of us that are single, there is another proverbial pandora's box opened up for feelings of loneliness. The balance of reason and emotion in our lives seems to be the problem, here, but I'd like to get some other folks two-bits. Why do we, and how can we, feel alone and isolated while it is certain that we are not? <br>troy