Do you have someone you talk to regularly on a personal level? Do you often want to talk to someone when you feel intense emotions?

Over the past year I guess I've become a pretty lonely person. I can make friends fine but I'm too embarrassed to talk to most of them on an intimate kind of level. Often when I do reach out it gets spun back to be a venting session for the other person before I even got to really speak my mind. Sometimes when I try to reach out the other person seems like a deer in the headlights. No idea how to respond, even though I try come on slowly and calmly. It feels like an immaturity on the other person's part. I've responded with more sincerity to drunk strangers on the bus.

So I'm left feeling kind of alone and needy. I keep a journal but sometimes you feel like you need to be heard and spoken to. I feel like the healthiest thing to do with these emotions sometimes is to just talk about them but I'm afraid to talk to anyone.

How do you deal with those feelings that just need to get out?