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Have a look around to see if there's a social/support group for the particular psychological issue that you are dealing with. Then meet with them.
they will understand the issues you are facing and may even have new ways to help you deal with them... but most of all they will at least understand what you are going through.
Can't guarantee that they won't be tools, of course, but I've often found I have to get different needs fulfilled by different groups of people. For the "being interesting" need look into groups that have similar interests to you. Meetup.com is a good place to look for groups nearby to you - they have groups for just about anything you can imagine and you can find the closest one to you that way... and if there isn't one... consider starting one up. If you register a group with meetup - other people near to you that are interested in the same thing will be notified - especially if you tag it appropriately (people watch, say, "meetups in my area that are to do with futurism" or whatever...)
No, just... no. #REDACTED#
I'll check out the meetup site. I've always assumed that if there was a meetup for any of the things I'm involved in I'd find out about it through ordinary forums and blogs and such for it, but &&ing a lot of different more minor interests or organizing one on a site like that might work.
Edit: nope, checked every group in my entire COUNTRY, which was not all that many, and not a single one of them sound even remotely interesting. Maybe I really do live more in the middle of nowhere than I thought. I wont even bother registering and trying to start a group.
where do you live?
...and have you made it to (or started) any of the LessWrong meetups?
Southern Sweden. And yea I've checked the possibility of starting an LW meetup, there's nobody to come.
Correction: there's nobody that's said they want to come.
If you start up a meetup - some people may come out of the woodwork. I know of at least one very cool programmer-dude in Sweden (stockholm) - there must be other cool geek-types about too.
have you considered getting into programming (if you're not already). AFAICT, there's a high crossover rate with LW-types there... and certainly you'll find people interesting to talk to.
I'm already into programming. I dabble in several languages, have top grades in it, and love the art form. Unfortunately I don't have time to practice and get good enough to do anything useful in a reasonable amount of time.
You don't have to be "good" to go to meetups or hackdays.
Just go.
If you need to learn anything - you can use the meetup/hackday to actually learn what it is you don't know... or just to have fun.
You can always move :( but as handoflixue said knowing your approximate location would be useful.
Nope, I can't actually. Again the mental helth stuff and related red tape.