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Originally Posted by Insidelookingout
It feels impossible to meet the kind of people i'd like to have friendships with. I feel uncomfortable, like I can't relate to other people and just emotionally detached. I'm social at work and people like me but in my personal life i'm a social hermit. It's been years since i've spent time with a friend and those times were when I was drinking (I don't drink at all now.) I'm starting to think that people who are also suffering from some form of mental illness would make better friends.
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I've felt similarly. The friends I have and had earlier in life were often friends of vicinity in a sense, I went to school as a kid and I met these other kids and we sort of just remained friends out of that, but now that I'm older and my sense of self is more defined and I know more about myself, finding people to relate to, people feel a connection with on a friend level is really hard. I don't see life the way most people do, and I'm sure many on here feel similarly, with many of us suffering from various things, from this perspective, it is hard to see life the same as people who don't deal with similar issues.