Ok, so I found this website while looking up an issue of personal relevance and I found myself fascinated by the opinions being offered on the topic, which had to do with jealousy within families. I learned A LOT about the topic, which was encouraging. I have had to contend with these issues in my family and among neighbors and others all of my life; the behaviours I am sometimes confronted with have pretty much always confounded me. I guess that is how life is, if we don't look carefully at something and try to get a good understanding of it, then we will keep running into it until we do. When I looked into the Bible, I saw it all laid out in front of me, that rather than a form of familial and social insanity, it is as people are and have always been and so, in consequence, is quite natural. And since it isn't going to go away anytime soon, and given the fact that I will simply have to accept it or remain reclusive, which is a fairly unhealthy way of handling life, then can anyone offer an idea on how to go about reintegrating myself into the community?  I have isolated myself for quite awhile. Alcohol never seems to be of much help and can actually cause more harm in the long run, so I avoid getting involved with it.



[Thanks out to Physics]

My advice is to put down the books and try and reconnect with old friends or find new ones.


As for finding friends that you truly have things in common with, and whose company you enjoy, that's a harder one, but maybe going to places (conventions, events, concerts, etc.) that you enjoy and making conversation is one way to start.

PhysicsMHD has given you a  very good advice.