My first exposure to being around a social circles in years

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I started going to school at a college campus on Wednesday and I already feel better than the routine and trials I had before this all started. I think it's much more of a benefit to me because I am already taking baby steps to interact with those students around or still a bit younger my own age, even said hi to a few girls before, between, and after classes and they say hi back. I have two classes a day for my first semester, add to that it means that I have up to a few hours on campus to myself to explore or hang with possible new friends, free time to work on class assignments, eating lunches, etc.

I am concerned about how to cope with weekends or extended breaks off from the campus environment, though. I am starting to think a lot of my anxiety and doom resulted from being a shut-in who never went out or was in an environment with a crowd of even 2-3 people for mostly all the years since I originally finished high school. I feel more liberated than I even expected from this environment. I guess for now, I'd say that I think it's better than my own personal home experience with parents, even though I'm really living off-campus for this time.

So I made that statement above in the second paragraph? I would like to have some coping advice for the times when I'm not being distracted from being on the campus at school. I still feel some doom and gloom anxiety thoughts sneaking through at the start of the weekend, unfortunately.

The best way, to me, to offset anxiety is to find some way to distract yourself from it.

Go out for walks.

Research what interests you (though not anything of a Armegeddon-type nature LOL).

Exercise (related to walks, of course).

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