TStein
New member
Hi, I am new to these forums, but unfortunately I am not new to the Social Phobia problem.
I passed my whole life with huge difficulties because of it. I am 30 years old and I have no friends netwrok, never had a girlfried and feel unable to do a lot of thing "normal" people consider mundane. For example going to a party or bar.
I wrok with therapist for about 3 years trying to make my life better. But we have been findign very difficult to build a soacila network. Specially my deep desire to live a normal life of a man, have a girlfriend etc... This last item specially. I work in an area where no woman present, and in fact I just realised a few days ago that I don't even speak to a woman for more than a year. And that depressed me a lot...
So I came here asking for suggestions. Suggestions or past experiences of yours. How do you make to know people when you are already cut of of a pre build social network (that helps to meet others) and simply is unable to get into social activities like I described? In special how would you search for chances to meet someone so you can maybe have a girlfriend, maybe someday build family. Where would you look for it seen that I feel like straped out of the common tools people have to build a social life?
Any help, constructive comments or suggestions are really appreciated.
BTW, sorry for english errors, its not my native language.
I passed my whole life with huge difficulties because of it. I am 30 years old and I have no friends netwrok, never had a girlfried and feel unable to do a lot of thing "normal" people consider mundane. For example going to a party or bar.
I wrok with therapist for about 3 years trying to make my life better. But we have been findign very difficult to build a soacila network. Specially my deep desire to live a normal life of a man, have a girlfriend etc... This last item specially. I work in an area where no woman present, and in fact I just realised a few days ago that I don't even speak to a woman for more than a year. And that depressed me a lot...
So I came here asking for suggestions. Suggestions or past experiences of yours. How do you make to know people when you are already cut of of a pre build social network (that helps to meet others) and simply is unable to get into social activities like I described? In special how would you search for chances to meet someone so you can maybe have a girlfriend, maybe someday build family. Where would you look for it seen that I feel like straped out of the common tools people have to build a social life?
Any help, constructive comments or suggestions are really appreciated.
BTW, sorry for english errors, its not my native language.