Finding Friends as an Adult is Hard, Dr. Adam Dorsay is Here to Make it Easier

The combination of proximity, school and limited freedom made making friends as a kid easy. But when you’re an adult, bogged down with responsibilities and time constraints — finding friends is a lot trickier.

Loneliness is an epidemic that the US Surgeon General has literally warned us about! So what can we do?

Dr. Adam Dorsay, psychologist and host of the SuperPsyched podcast (and forthcoming book of the same name) sat down for the OpenWater Wise Up! podcast to talk about why it’s difficult to make friends the older we get and how we can get better at it. We talk about the fear of rejection, how we may want to re-define “friend” and some easy steps to meeting people (get a dog!).

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