I'm recently PIMO and I'm really glad to be awake now and free of the mind control of WT. But part of the dark side of waking up is realizing I dont have any genuine friends in the cong and also in my life in general due to the warped view of 'wordly' people I grew up with. I can't really open up to anyone for fear of being labelled an apostate(I'm not ready to come out and get DFsd). And thanks to being born and raised in the org ny social skills are close to zero.

I find it very hard meeting people and making new friends and I've been extremely lonely and depressed stuck in my head with my own thoughts. I just want to know how y'all dealt with this shortly after leaving...and if you decided to just settle for the loneliness how did you deal with that too.