Hey there,

I was in your position when I was in high school too. Actually, I think I was pretty much your exact age as well. I remember coming home in tears to my dad one day because I didn't have any friends. I was bullied too.

My advice is to stick it out. It sounds like useless advice but it gets better. I promise. High school may seem like your whole world forever and ever but it will eventually end. Again, this will sound a bit cliche but in all seriousness, you'll look back on this period of your life and realize that high school was just....high school. Nothing more.

Another piece of advice is to identify what makes you happy, whether its an activity, person, job, whatever. Do you have any hobbies? Do you play an instrument? Do you enjoy any type of sport (could be anything from chess to soccer!)? Invest your time doing the things you love and you will eventually find someone who enjoys the same things and then...bingo! A friend!

That's how I found my first real "friends" in high school. After my break down I made an effort and went over to a family friend's house. Our parents were good friends, and she was a social butterfly, her house was always the "spot" to go to for a few classmates I knew. I was lucky enough to be invited over one Friday night to "hang out." Sidenote - I was really into video cameras/photography at that point in my life, I was always making short little videos with a cheap camera my parents bought me. Turns out, my classmates at this family friend's house were into the same thing. And I never even knew it until I worked up the courage to go over there! We spent the next few house making a spoof on MTV's the "Real World" and from then on, I am still friends with those people until this day (I'm in my mid-20's now).

Hope this helps, happy to talk more if you need!