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Move back to the city you studied in. I stayed in Nottingham after studying here and I couldn't go back and live in my hometown any more..

No matter how bad you think you've had it, Miran, you can't possibly do much worse than I once attained. I had very few friends growing up, and not that many now whom I'm able to see in real life either. Most of my contact with real people beyond the internet is limited to a guy I used to room with, a friend from elementary school who's life is usually very busy, my neighbours, my sister and her boyfriend, and my father. (Not counting door to door sales-people or other such strangers whom I don't get to know.)

That doesn't mean I can't make friends over the net, and in fact, some of the greatest people I know I've only ever spoken to over the net. I keep my spirits up by knowing that what few friends I have are important people, so I treat them as being important.

The depression you're experiencing was something I went through when I was only about 12 or 13 when I barely knew anybody. There are a huge number of factors that went into my getting over it, but the biggest was becoming more confident in myself, my abilities, and my interests.

Nowadays, I'd be damned if I let someone else's opinion define me, no matter how many other people share it.

Besides which, I found that making friends was easy, once I completed one simple step: Stop being so depressed about not having friends. What you need to do is accept your situation and seek a remedy. Dwelling on your problems is the only reason why they're not getting solved. Depression is almost like the ultimate form of procrastination and it can really bother the people around you. If you don't feel good about yourself, how are you supposed to feel good about someone else? And how is someone else supposed to feel good about you?

It all starts with you.

Though there's always the possibility your depression is clinical, as in, it's being caused by something physically wrong, like a chemical imbalance. If you have no aversion to using medical drugs to solve such a problem you may want to seek medical assistance.

You have a huge variety of options for making yourself better off, but none of them will work unless you do them. And it is a "do" kind of thing, not a "try" kind of thing, meaning that they will almost certainly not work at first, but are more likely to succeed the more you attempt them.

Remember, the only person who can stop you from solving your problems is yourself. Every step you take to make your life better will make all the difference.

--- Kris Asick (Gemini)
--- http://www.pixelships.com

I mean waking up with your hand trapped underneath and choosing to bite it off instead of awakening the beast. It's called the trapped wolf's hangover.

You can trust Andrei on his life experience. He's always right on things like that. Comparing myself from the thread that he linked to and the me of today... two things have changed. I don't live with my parents anymore and I have a job(programming slave). See, it can only get better.:D

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Same here! I think it comes from being intelligent. I started feeling better after my boss pointed that out to me actually. He's very good. He cares for his team and he does an excellent job.

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young." - Baz Luhrman in Everybody is Free (Sun Screen)

This is especially true if you're intelligent. There are fewer schools, universities and jobs that can bring the best out of you. You will be paid more and you will be able to afford to travel, either to go to such places or out of preference. You may have hobbies that take up a lot of your spare time. The same goes for all the people you connect with the most.

There are ways to meet people. At my company we have newsgroups and occasional outings to encourage colleagues to mingle, and if you can get invited to parties and the like, you can meet people beyond the office that way too. Away from all that, there's church, evening classes, societies if you can find them, and if it comes to it, dating services. There's also the Internet, and given the last paragraph, meeting people you know online shouldn't seem so absurd.

Hope you feel better soon

Ouch T_T Cringe + laugh =

Yes, but remember Stalin said "Quantity has a quality of it's own..."

Oh, wtf am I talking about? I don't have any friends either...

Thank you, people from the void. I already feel a lot better than I did a few days ago.

That's probably pushed him back again

How I long to stab you.

Hmm, I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to use the words signed and unsigned in a sentance. I can't come up with anything...

I promise I'll have my game ready before christmas. I'm just not sure which...

Just don't let it become a const-ant worry, or you might end up rather volatile.