Hi Zoe,

First, I’m glad that you’re in a good place now…with regard to your struggle with depression.
As for struggling to connect…
One of my goals (1of3) for this year and beyond really, is to establish new and MEANINGFUL relationships, to re-establish past relationships and to strengthen existing ones. Three years ago I moved to a different city to pursue my undergrad. I may as well have fallen off the face of the earth because I lost connection with many(most) of my friends and acquaintances and failed to make many- meaningful- connections with people on campus- I’m fairly reserved and introverted for one- my schedule was also pretty crazy (particularly the last two years) and therefore I didn’t have the time to get involved in many campus activities- which is ideally a good place to meet people. So today I find myself back in my city, new job, and countable friends- two people that talk and meet on the regular- minus my family. So I too feel the need to connect and reconnect with people. I share some of your struggles- like the tendency yourself- I’m an introvert, awkward social situations- approaching people, starting conversations- what do I say? what will they think? what if I’m not interesting enough? etc.