compassionatereminders:

I’m not saying mental illness can’t make socializing a struggle but guess what? If you keep waiting for your friends to come to you, then your friends will end up feeling neglected and eventually they’ll move on to people who can meet their efforts halfway – and they’re not in the wrong for doing so. So you gotta fight the instinct to self-isolate no matter how insecure you are feeling. Your friends likely need reassurance sometimes too.