That's a tough question. It might make sense to find a way to connect depressed people with other depressed people, but it's very complicated. Maybe if the group were focuses on loneliness rather than depression, but not everyone's loneliness can be reasonably satisfied.

People from different walks of life can be depressed for completely different reasons. One of my major struggles is that I've never matured into an adult, nor have I been forced to. That's much different from someone who is working hard to take care of themselves. Some people who are depressed might be victims of someone else, while others might be feeling terrible about their own guilt. Some people are depressed for something that they lost, while others are depressed for something that they never had. Some people might be depressed for unchangeable reasons, while others could use a change in perspective. Some people are depressed because they have no friends, while other are depressed because their friends are making them depressed.

I think this forum is as good an option available to get in touch with other depressed people. I can be a lonely feeling to spill your heart to someone only to have life feel just as empty at the end of the day. People are really complicated though and it's not necessarily a good idea to introduce people to each other who are going to enable or conflict with their depression.

It would be a miracle if someone could hook me up with someone who is depressed in exactly the same way that I am, but the odds of that happening are so low. What then when one or the other comes out of the depression? What would these people have in common then?