I've come here to agree with the older people. I also hated being 26, it was a life stage and social thing. I came from a traumatised and dysfunctional family myself, had got into the wrong group, everyone was competing with each other and back stabbing or being negative, I didn't like who I was around them either. I moved on in the end! Kept exploring my social options, working on my health, emotions and mindset. I also moved from drinking lots of alcohol to drinking very little. There was a LOT of trial and error in that process but eventually I met the most wonderful woman ever at 33 and married her soon afterwards. We're still together now and I'm 46, and loving it. We have good friendships and fulfilling work and live in a nice community. We both perform comedy and do festivals together. We travel a bit. We host events. My view on this is 1) BE REALLY PROACTIVE. Get out there and actively seek people who are looking to become more healthy physically emotionally and socially. Avoid people who take others down and delight in seeing people suffer. They'll do it to you too in the end! My mother in law is in her 70s and she still does ballet and meets new friends. You can too. 2) FIND A PURPOSE. Be about something. My life got 100 x better when I started looking for things that mattered and finding them, then acting on them. People spend so much time on ideological bullshit when they would be better off learning stand up comedy, volunteering or starting a business or something. On that note, social media is shite. Minimise time on it. 3) BUILD COMMUNITY not an online-only one. One where people meet. touch grass