You are a highly intelligent person, probably introverted and intuitive, and study a lot at school, which keeps you busy. Maybe you are shy. You became depressed, because everybody needs to feel loved. Your family does not understand you or your needs. I do. I have felt the same way many times. Like the support specialist said, it takes time for medications to work, and sometimes you have to try different ones before you find the right solution. Medications are a way out of the dark cloud, therapy could be a new way to think and live your life so as to minimise the depression. I hope my note to you will encourage you that you are not alone, and that you will get better if you keep trying. Focusing on trying to help others when you are able to is also a good way to come out from inside your head, and keep you more balanced on the extravert introvert scale; which helps lonliness go away. But perhaps depression itself makes us feel lonely and isolated, and, so even after you go through a few months of waiting for things to work, you may still have bouts of depression and feel lonely. I am on medications and have done a lot of therapy, but I still need to write here sometimes just because I still feel lonely. But this site is good to meet others who feel the same way you do. You are not alone, and the skies will brighten up now and then even for those with severe depression. Maybe even better than that, you could imagine yourself one day feeling great and not being depressed any more. Some people come to that point, and perhaps some day in the future we all will....
