Well, when you're depressed, presumably things hurt more often. So when things are emotionally painful and you're not depressed, then how do you respond? Either way, I have a tendency to cry, but that's just my very enthusiastic tear ducts. But that does little that's really useful. Sometimes I think the best way to deal with being lonely in a crowd is to leave the crowd for a while. I don't know. But it's a feeling that I Think almost everyone feels sometimes, some folks more than others. Certainly hearing it from one of the folks I was talking with about it surprised me. One of the others- well, I think he meant it to surprise me, but I'm not that blind. DO you feel out of place only in larger social settings, or also smallish ones? Somehow when over a certain number of people appear, it starts getting harder to stay involved with- I think once there start being more than one, or maybe two conversations going on at once