Be your own person and dont care about what people think. Your happiness is more important that those ïmportsnt"people.

Friends come and go. Find your core friends and be with them.

Next find the other friends and just explore around. Are you in Uni or working ?

You need to go out and socialise. Be yourself but dont be an ass.

Use apps like Tinder or something to meet women. You can meet women and increase your confidence of meeting people. Slowly you will overcome this anxiety.

The goal here is not to be a player or to be popular, but just to have raise confidence by meeting people and talking, without fear or favour.

Seriously, pick up a hobby that is not alone kinda thing. Earlier someone said gym and muay thai, thats one. Maybe motorcycling ? Or cars ? Or Hiking ?

You need to put in the effort to be out there. At our level, no one is gonna come ask us out and so on. Realise this and change. You go out, you look for friends.

You be active. After a few years you will look back and see how much you have changed to overcome depression.