I M19 am pretty sure that I suffer from social anxiety as well as depression but most of the time I can cope with it by myself. Lately it’s been getting pretty bad though and don’t know what to do. Not sure if this is the right sub for this, if not I will delete and post somewhere else. 

I’ve got a pretty good group of friends. I moved around A LOT in school so I don’t have anyone I’ve known for 10+ years or have a super deep connection with but I do have some friends that I’m fairly close with that I met in my later years of high school. 

One of my closest ones (F19) works at a restaurant and a few months ago they hired 3 guys to work there (M18, M17, M17). She would tell me funny stories about the stuff they do at work and they sounded pretty chill. Fast forward to bout a month and a half ago and one of them snapped me from her Snapchat, I can’t remember exactly what was said but it was typical teenage boy locker room talk and I ended up getting his snap. He seemed like a really cool person, we’ll call him Dave. One day me and my friend decided to hang out with Dave as he just got a new car and wanted to show it off (Subaru legacy b spec for anyone curious, things nice). It went fairly decent in my mind, I’m a little timid when I first meet someone but was trying to be open when I wasn’t stumbling on my words. 

A few weeks after that I got into it with one of my co workers, won’t get into the details but I was steaming pissed. I started looking for a new job and applied to one place. Turns out that the place that it’s the same place Dave works at (he works at the restaurant part time now). He seemed a little excited when I told him I applied and said I should do it. The next day I was hired and started that week. 

When I’m at work I don’t see him very often but when we run into each other we chit chat for a little bit and go on our way. We don’t snap each other that frequently anymore but I figured that would happen as he is terrible at maintaining a conversation through text. I’d really like to become friends with him since we have a lot of things in common but I’m not sure how to do it without seeming desperate or like a clingy person. I am petrified or being rejected or being labeled as weird. A lot of the time after work I feel depressed because I’m so afraid of the possible rejection or having it fizzle into nothing. I feel like I’m in a roundabout with no good avenues.