Can I just pay someone with real event planning and social skills to just include me in whatever they’re doing? It would be way better for my mental health than therapy.
Edit: not even just for me personally either. Like as a community thing. I pay my portion and the person planning all this uses it to rent a space and pay for catering or whatever and keeps a list of all of us and tries to get us all out of the house.
I have a friend that does this for me. I don’t pay them but it does work surprisingly well. I’m grateful that they’re understanding about my social anxiety issues and allow me to reject some of their invites without cutting me out in the future.
Find a Mormon. They will be ecstatic to do this for free. Of course all the social events will be church related and they will certainly try their best to convert you… But harassing people into participating is what they’re best at.
I do basically that for free. Like others said, join a club!
Pay yourself.
Get an old fashioned wall calendar and write in all the social events you can attend each month. Make a check mark on the ones you actually go to. At the end of the year count them up and give yourself $10.00 for each one attended.
This need is probably something you can discuss with your therapist.
A pay-for-friend? Yeah you can totally do it! I don’t know about a real event planner but use the social meeting apps and throw some money at people. See what happens. Sounds to me like an interesting social experiment too. Good luck!
Where you at, fool
