27 years old and no friends?
I just turned 27 years old and I don't have any friends. I'm married with 4 kids (ages 8, 4, 3, and 2 months). I have always been a shy, quiet person and it didn't help when I got pregnant as a teen so I was isolated at home a lot. In school I mostly kept to myself so no one remembers me from reunion and classmates websites. I was diagnosed with social anxiety and it is pretty bad, I used to be on meds but they didn't help so I'm off of them. I hate being the center of attention. My conversation skills always sucked. The only semi good years I had with friends was elementary and when I was 14-16 years old. I feel so different around people, like I don't belong. I don't know how to connect with people. I went to therapy when I was 16 to help with the messed up crap that has happened to me but it still affects me and that started again after more messed up crap happened. I feel so lonely. My husband is gone all the time. He works 2 jobs so I never see him. I can't go anywhere because its always just me and the kids. Even if I was free to go out, I don't know how to hold a conversation enough to make friends. I'm always so awkward and quiet. I've tried to make friends but it never sticks. I don't know what to do. I even get nervous talking to my family. I feel so slow because I don't seem to see things like other people do and when I say something it always comes out weird, I stutter and ramble and say awkward things. I feel so lonely. Is there anyway to stop the awkwardness? I really hate being this way but how is it possible to change this? I've tried but no luck.
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I'm 15 I have no life or friends please help?
I'm a fourteen year old girl and I have almost the exact same problem. Ever since my parents' divorce I feel kind of like I have been abandoned, I am home schooled, and because of the fact that my dad cannot help me with my homework (he's always working) and my mom is completely mentally ill and leaving hundreds of miles away, I have to study and do everything on my own. I always feel like I am a failure, and I too sit around all day feeling depressed and bored as hell. Luckily, I have a sister who lives with me and my dad, and she helps me, but she is also depressed, and its hard to feel happy when one of your only friend's is depressed! I feel clumsy and stupid all the time too, and I am scared to go out into the real world because I am shy. All I can say to try and help you is do your best to NOT WORRY the only thing that I have found helpful for my clumsy and awkwardness is to just say you know what? to hell with it! I did my best and that is that. If you just try and talk to people as best you can, eventually you will gain more and more charisma, and some day you won't be having these problems anymore! I believe that we all have these shyness/awkwardness/depression issues some time in our lives, and the best thing you can do is try to find anything that makes you feel accomplished, and that gives you a future (I study really hard with my homework, because I know that someday I will be able to get away from all the depression that is my current life and succeed in life) and makes you feel better about yourself. I hope I helped atleast a little bit, and do not worry about not having a gf yet, you are still very young and u should try and ignore the peer pressure to date and get laid when you are still just a kid, and just try ur best to enjoy life, because u still have a long life ahead of u! and lots of time to meet someone that u TRULY love. I wish you the best! -Helena <3
I'm 17 years old (a girl) & feel like a loser. What should I do?
When Summer ends, I will be starting my Senior year of high school & I feel like there's a lot I haven't done. I feel like I didn't get to enjoy my teen years. I have a license but don't have a car because my mom can't afford it & I understand, but I hate having to make her drive me everywhere & wait for her & see a lot of other people my age & younger out driving themselves. I want to have that responsibility & take the burden off of her. I want to be able to run errands & hang out with friends by transporting myself. I also don't have a job because my mom wants me to focus on academics. When it comes to my social life, I feel like the older I got in high school, the less soical I've been. I lost a lot of friends from middle school & freshman year. Sophomore year & now, I have few friends but I'm very thankful for them because they are the ones that truly care & stick around. I however don't get to hang out with them much outside of school since I don't have a car. My mom is also kind of strict so I'm not really allowed to go anywhere outside the local area/basic things with my friends. I get invited to go to the beach or an amusement park & I'm not allowed to go, so I feel like I've been disconnected from them. I look around & see people my age with cars & jobs, going out with their friends & I feel so behind. I'm trapped in my own life even tho I'm a dependable & responsible person. For college I'm not allowed to stay on campus so I'm not getting any life skills at all.