Hello everybody, perhaps you can help.
I am 37 years old, and I have been horribly lonely most of my life. I moved many times for work etc, I spent a few (very lonely) years in a bed after an accident, since a year or so i am fine but the little social skills that I had before are now nonexistent. I am good at making superficial acquaintances, but for some reason people never call me out. I wish I could pay some people who don't like me that much to understand how I look from the outside, I d do everything (except deny who I am and what I believe in) to have a bit more company, and I am not even talking about a boyfriend (that s another sad long story), just some more friends.
What kind of therapist could I look for, to help me with that?
I am getting a real depression.
The interesting thing is that from the outside I look like one of those "successful" people, not too ugly (that s not my personal feeling, but what I m told), nice clothes, smart, just got a decent job, perhaps too cultured, honest, I really try to be nice without being pushy, and really try to hide my despair, but perhaps people can smell that just the same, and they run, and I am perfectly alone, apart from some good friends in other cities that I never see and some acquaintances. What can I do to be loved a bit more?
Wow, how pathetic. Forgive the long post, I just feel I have wasted my life.
I am 37 years old, and I have been horribly lonely most of my life. I moved many times for work etc, I spent a few (very lonely) years in a bed after an accident, since a year or so i am fine but the little social skills that I had before are now nonexistent. I am good at making superficial acquaintances, but for some reason people never call me out. I wish I could pay some people who don't like me that much to understand how I look from the outside, I d do everything (except deny who I am and what I believe in) to have a bit more company, and I am not even talking about a boyfriend (that s another sad long story), just some more friends.
What kind of therapist could I look for, to help me with that?
I am getting a real depression.
The interesting thing is that from the outside I look like one of those "successful" people, not too ugly (that s not my personal feeling, but what I m told), nice clothes, smart, just got a decent job, perhaps too cultured, honest, I really try to be nice without being pushy, and really try to hide my despair, but perhaps people can smell that just the same, and they run, and I am perfectly alone, apart from some good friends in other cities that I never see and some acquaintances. What can I do to be loved a bit more?
Wow, how pathetic. Forgive the long post, I just feel I have wasted my life.