Sometimes I fear that I'm going to live alone for the rest of my life, and this really bothers me.

To put it simply, I don't have any friends because I have social anxiety. I truly want to have friends, but I've had so many "friends" treat me poorly in the past that I've shied away from having friends in general. I fear getting rejected again.

My lack of friends, however, is why I fear that I'm going to live alone -- that everyone will abandon me. Of course it's my fault, though... Before I sought professional help, I made a lot of crappy friends and I drove all the good ones away with my bad behavior.

Now that I'm becoming stable again, I want to make friends, but I don't know where to start. I'm 24, and I don't drink or do hookups (like most people my age do). My sex drive is virtually non-existent.

I was thinking about joining a local DBSA group to make some friends, but has anyone had success with making friends there? What's your experience like? What do you do during your meetings?