Need some advice/insight, if possible. Sorry if you're sick of me bringing up this topic, but it's a problem I'm struggling with, and I can't imagine a world in which nobody else is struggling with this.

I've been "looking" for a while, but I always hit a number of walls (figuratively speaking) where my mental health is concerned. In the past, the OCD and the anxiety it typically produces really got in the way.

Starting to think one of the reasons I'm still single is because I'm too afraid to go near a woman romantically because of the content of my intrusive thoughts. (stupid "what if" of OCD drives me nuts) It's so scary being scared of myself, then scared of what other people would think of me if they knew what goes on in my head with all this OCD crap.

Trying to find a "normal" woman (in other words, one who doesn't have these sort of mental health issues - the usual kind of regular woman, who doesn't know anything about mental health, you find in the world) is just seemingly impossible. Even if I do find a woman, I never know, because I don't give her a chance - I just assume she'd not even wizz on me if I were on fire. >.< I feel like I have nothing to offer except problems and stress. I do have some good things about me, but this mental health crap just drags me down, out there in the real world. At least I can come here and people "get it", but out there, good luck!

You know, on dating sites, you're meant to sell yourself, but that's all very well and wonderful if you're awesome, but what if you have these sort of problems? They always go on about how they like traveling and going to gigs and yadda yadda, ... yeah, that's great, but what if you have social anxiety and going to a small shop 2 minutes down the road can be stressful?

So, how do you guys manage? Any tips or insights for me?