How to escape extreme loneliness

Idk what to say, am a 22 male and am so fucken lonely. I haven’t had a real friend since high school. And I meal literally nobody, I haven’t hung out with another guy or girl my age outside of work.

My birthdays are spent going to dinner with my parents and after work am mainly just in my room. My hobbies are comics and movies.

The worst part is that when your this alone and an internet addict your preyed upon by every side. Woman online who will degrade you or act as your girlfriend for a price and far-right figures who offer up a world view to explain your isolation. Generally blaming the promotion of DEI and mass immigration.

My bed rotting has gotten so bad lately I’ve noticed myself close then open the same app 3 or 4 times until I get so angry I just delete it to be redownloaded the next day.

The only times I do leave my room is when my parents push me to join them for a family dinner or to go to the local house of prayer. And hey what’s my excuse to say no? I am so completely paralyzed that I own a car that I don’t even have a permit to drive.

I’ve made brave attempts to reintegrate myself into society recently going on a trip with fellow college students to another country for a week. I was easily the most socially averse but some girls took what I could only imagine is pity and spoke to me (which was my first time talking to a girl my age since high school) and a few guys took my ironic humor and autistically deep knowledge of soccer enough to warrant a conversation.

I wasn’t always this way. In highschool I had friends altho I was never the type to arrange a get together. I’d wait for a friend to do it or be summoned by an extrovert for a side quest (going to the super market, getting lunch together or occasionally the bar). I was even a victim of the deep convo by the park bench more than once.

I don’t want to continue being this way. Thanks to online college I got my undergrad and start law school this August. I wanna get better I hate the self loathing and shit life I currently have. I don’t like scrolling incel forums and Being mad at the world. I wanna heal.

Beyond the gym which am looking into, what else can I do? And maybe am off but I feel like am not the only guy suffering like this. If so what have you done to healthfully cope, bc the current ways I’ve been copping is really damaging.