Hello so I’m 21 years old (man) and I have isolated myself for nearly the whole year, i never had a problem with making friends and I have (had) a big friend group of amazing people, I was working everyday and so on , I’ve had anxiety for about 5 years now, but it was never stopping me from everyday life, I did party tho nearly every week with my mates, anyway out of nowhere I just stopped wanting to go out and see my friends, and I was the type of person that never wanted to be home! And always wanted to do stuff with my friends, and now it has been nearly 1 whole year since I have seen them, I feel bad, but when they tried to ring me I just didn’t answer.. and then made up an excuse later that I was busy even tho I’m just sitting in my room, so anyway I was still working and just came home after work and did my own thing, but then Covid 19 came and we didn’t have work for about 1 month, that was last year and I never went back, and I wasn’t really doing anything for awhile, so I was thinking oh well I’m bettering myself from not going out and partying and quitting cigarettes, so I continued not to go out and was home detoxing myself from all the shit I used to put into my body and I thought that would help my anxiety, it did, but then it started going worse again, and it got to the point that I was waking up feeling anxious which was scary! and then because I haven’t left the house in so long that now ever time I left my house (with my mum) I would get a massive anxiety attack, which made my not want to leave the house haha so  I don’t know why I’m writing all this but was just seeing if something similar has happened to someone, ( my family are my best friends now) I actually enjoy being around them more then I ever have, which isn’t a bad thing, but I know I’m just digging myself into a hole, I’ve gone from being a social person who hated being at home, to the complete opposite shutting all my friends out of my life and hardly leaving the house! I’m on tablets for my anxiety which has help a-bit but I’m still not who I used to be and don’t think I ever will be again. But yeah oh well