Hi. I know exactly how you feel, I am the same way. I don’t have any friends, just close family, so I’m not around people a lot. I just got a new job last week, and I feel uncomfortable around the new people. I’ve had a lot of anxiety about my job, I am a worrier by nature, I obsess over nearly everything. I kept ruminating about how I am perceived by my coworkers, and it was causing me a lot of stress and anxiety. I was thinking today though that I think people are really just like me, they want love, acceptance, and compassion. So I decided today that I was going to start to exude those three things from myself instead of seeking them from others. I used to feel fear and terror from my coworkers and bosses, but now I try to love, accept, and have compassion for them because they may be suffering just like me. I always thought I was in a separate category from other people, like, “nobody feels the same way I do.” But I have to say that I think most people want those three things I said before, and that generally speaking, people want the same things I want. I too am a very private person, when I’m around a lot of people I need time to be alone and find peace again. I don’t share everything with people either, I am a introverted person. I feel like when I’m being outgoing and the like that I’m putting on a show. But I realized that I don’t have to be this huge gregarious person in order to allow people to feel at ease around me. I understand how you don’t know what to say around people, I never say anything around people for the most part. But I just try to make people feel comfortable, to make them feel accepted, because I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to be accepted by me too. So I try to be proactive. Well I don’t know if this helps, but I wish you peace.