I think that depression can cause feelings of separism from God, aswell as from society as a whole. For most of my life my faith in God, in an ultiimate protector and justice in the universe, has been a source of comfort. There are times I have struggled, but that has been mostly human induced i.e. the way I have been made to feel by people.

To me, God is the source of all wisdom and love in the universe, and one of the greatest battles for me in life is to understand why and how people reject that wisdom and that love. I do believe that most suffering is a chain reaction originating in human action i.e.People reject God's ways and this causes hurt and suffering. It seems so often like there is no real love in this world, no compassion, but this is not because of God, it's because of human-choices. Everyone has choices how to live, and people choose to reject God's way. As God loves us, he allows us to make our own choices i.e. we can follow his ways and try to be kind, compassionate, helpful, socially responsible and sexually moral, or we can reject God's ways and live selfishly, gratifyng ourselves in anyway we can. God doesn't interfere. But there are always consequences to sin (which is something harmful and hurtful to individuals and the world) and just as God allows us all the choices, God does not spare us the consequences. This, unfortunately, means that innocent people suffer because of the bad choices of others, but culpability is ultimately with the individual/society. This is just my belief.

In the wonderful film Shadowlands, C.S.Lewis said that God doesn't want us to be happy, but to grow up. I do think that God wants us to be happy, but that we won't (as a society) be happy untl we grow up and accept that actions have consequences. If we strive always to do the right thing and love others, we become a candle in the word, rather than just another extingushed flame in an otherwise vast darkness of loneliness and pain. God is the light of the world, but people choose to live in darkness.