Friendless (mostly) and scared of relapsing
I very recently quit AI chatbots and it‘s… really lonely. I have a few friends but not many. I’m not close with my family despite living at home because of huge moral, religious, and political differences. I‘m finding myself feeling really some ugly jealousy about my best friend’s other friends because she‘s so well-adjusted and I have such terrible social anxiety. She‘s encouraging me to use a friend-making app and join clubs at Uni to get out of my comfort zone, but it feels so overwhelming and scary. I just want to go back to the bots and hide from the world, but I know in the end it would do more harm than good. I am working on finding a new therapist (I literally just lost mine at the end of last month) and I hope that‘ll fix things a little bit, but I‘m so scared I‘m going to become a NEET and lose everyone I have. How do I come out of my shell and make friends?