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Hey, I was just saying reddit is a shitty place, not that you deserved it. Also I'm not sure what you want me to elaborate on. You can't expect me to give you specific instructions when you say nothing about yourself.
I would encourage you to be empathetic to others, and try to put yourself in their shoes. If if you're speaking to other people like you are in this comment, it's not surprising they don't want to be around you. (I know you're suffering and you probably don't mean it to, but this comment comes across as very combative and hostile, which would put many people off.) I'd recommend you read 'how to win friends and influence people', or at least check out an article or video summarizing it.
Also you seem to have a made quite a lot of assumptions about me. I'm not claiming to know any sort of higher truth, not sure where you got that from. I'm unemployed and never had a real career job, I've never been in a real romantic relationship, and I've spent days straight laying in bed too depressed and anxious to leave the house. I just know that I used to not want to be alive and now I do. I'm making progress very slowly, even when it doesn't feel like it. And it's mostly because I've put effort into friendships with others, and because I did a lot of introspection and changed how I view myself and the world.
I appreciate you for the double up on genuine caring responses.
Thanks for trying, in spite of their chaotic spiral.