Hi Eric

Circumstances are neither good or bad. Lots of people aren’t close with their families. Lots of people don’t have cousins. Lots of people are shorter.

What determines how you feel about something is the way that you think and view the world. At the moment, you do so through a lens of depression.

You can learn to change this in time. I think it would be more accurate to say that you feel lonely because of your social anxiety and tendency towards self-hatred. What do you think?