>I still have a serious problem with socializing, and it's not like I expect to have a relationship while I'm still boxed up like this. I believe I have to solve that problem first.

That's correct, and you should treat that problem not as something abstract that you need to figure out sometime in the future, but as a concrete and immediate problem, just like getting food to eat today. Think seriously about what kind of people do you want to spend your time with, and how to go about to meet them.