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I’ve tried going to many different groups for my interests and nothing works out. Nobody ever tries to approach me first, and whenever I try to reach out to other people I just get ignored or ghosted. I haven’t attempted purely online interactions and I don’t want that since I feel like I need something in person. Even when I did attempt to make friends online, it wasn’t any different anyway.

I don’t know if I’m looking in the wrong places (I feel like it shouldn’t matter that much)? I’ve never been able to find someone that I click with and it always becomes more obvious that once I stop initiating any conversations with people, I will never hear from them. Does anyone have something that has worked for them?

I feel like this is how it is for me. I tried tons of different things. I’ve lost count of how many different therapists I’ve seen but it’s at least 10. I tried different methods, different providers when I felt like there wasn’t a good fit. After all of that, nothing felt helpful. I feel like it always ended up the same where after a while I would just dread going to appointments and in some cases I skipped them (unintentionally) because the stress and negative feelings were just too much.

In a lot of respects, I feel worse than when I started. Not just because the issues that initially made me start therapy got worse, but also because I feel much less hopeful about them ever getting any better. Is it possible that therapy just doesn’t work for me? To be honest, a lot of the time just seemed to be empty platitudes and trying to convince me out of deeply held beliefs. If it is the case that it doesn’t work for me then what other options do I have? I think I’m all out of ideas and I don’t know what to do.