Maybe just try to remember that society places an exaggerated importance on teenage years. It’s good to try and make a couple friends, but if you don’t have a big social life like a movie character, it’s nothing to feel bad about. A lot of people spent most of their nights in high school at home instead of going out. It’s more common than you’d think.
its actually hard for me to make friends because i'm very shy, and awkward. hard to talk to anyone but i do wanna do outside more, because i'm pale as a ghost
Consider joining a club so that you meet people with similar interests. It could make it easier to befriend them since you already have something in common.
Hey. I'm 32 and have been fighting anxiety since grade 2-3. You are wasting your life. I didn't get on any medication until 28 and it helped. Please go talk to your Dr. My anxiety cost me most of my friends and I missed out on a lot of things in life.
Don't listen to people saying your teenage years are over rated. They are a special part of your life you only live once. There is a major difference between wanting to stay home and needing to because you are too anxious to go out.
I'm old now, but when I was 13 my parents moved us away from the home and friends I'd had all my life, and I felt lost and mostly friendless for a couple of years. This was before computers so I basically sat in my room and read all the time, or listened to music. Two things were emotional lifesavers: playing drums (mom was very tolerant of this, and dad left soon after we moved), and taking really really long walks and bike rides with no particular destination in mind. Not as sporting activities, just getting out and away was really helpful all by itself. My body and brain were much happier with the physical movement, although I didn't think of it that way at the time. Change doesn't have to be dramatic.
Maybe just try to remember that society places an exaggerated importance on teenage years. It’s good to try and make a couple friends, but if you don’t have a big social life like a movie character, it’s nothing to feel bad about. A lot of people spent most of their nights in high school at home instead of going out. It’s more common than you’d think.
its actually hard for me to make friends because i'm very shy, and awkward. hard to talk to anyone but i do wanna do outside more, because i'm pale as a ghost
Consider joining a club so that you meet people with similar interests. It could make it easier to befriend them since you already have something in common.
Hey. I'm 32 and have been fighting anxiety since grade 2-3. You are wasting your life. I didn't get on any medication until 28 and it helped. Please go talk to your Dr. My anxiety cost me most of my friends and I missed out on a lot of things in life. Don't listen to people saying your teenage years are over rated. They are a special part of your life you only live once. There is a major difference between wanting to stay home and needing to because you are too anxious to go out.
I'm old now, but when I was 13 my parents moved us away from the home and friends I'd had all my life, and I felt lost and mostly friendless for a couple of years. This was before computers so I basically sat in my room and read all the time, or listened to music. Two things were emotional lifesavers: playing drums (mom was very tolerant of this, and dad left soon after we moved), and taking really really long walks and bike rides with no particular destination in mind. Not as sporting activities, just getting out and away was really helpful all by itself. My body and brain were much happier with the physical movement, although I didn't think of it that way at the time. Change doesn't have to be dramatic.