I Want to Make Friends

Hi. I'm new here, and want to make friends. I was on EP, and wish I could connect with people I knew there (but hold out not hope for that). But how do I go about making friends here, just in general? It's been so long since I've really had to that I can't remember :/

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MarkPaul · 26-30, M

Yeah man... I can relate... On top of my social anxiety, I am super shy. Although... it's not disabling social anxiety and it's not debilitating shyness. I am pushing myself to acknowledge (rather than deny) those 2 "conditions" I have while avoiding using them as excuses to retreat into my fears. Although my main interest is in real-world interactions (which is difficult for me), I find I am able to gain some starter-confidence by interacting here (although I tend to start feeling pathetic about myself which cycles into feeling desperate for the type of genuine interaction that seems so easy for everyone else and so really, really hard for me. So, far I have been making some advancements, although remedial. I am finding, it's mostly one step at a time and attempting to just let go of all the negative energy that seems to "want" to hold me back...