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2) Put getting a woman on the back-burner to focus on your mission. I've been in a position for awhile now where asking a woman out is pointless. Thus, I've put getting a woman on the back-burner in my life and have thrown my focus into getting through college and readying myself to be competent and hire-able at my dream vocation. My life has basically been: working on school work and other matters (business research, practice, etc.) to train for my vocation; church and church fellowship; studying the Bible, Christian books, and prayer; exercise; hanging out with friends occasionally; and that's about it. When you get into a routine like this, a funny thing happens: firstly, your thirstiness for female companionship starts fading away until it's gone; secondly, ironically women take notice of this: they can pick up on the fact that you're a focused man with a mission who doesn't need them to validate you like a bloodhound picks up blood. Also, just getting out of your comfort zone and pushing yourself to be a little more social than usual will help in this process.
3) Get therapy. Like me, more than likely you have some deep emotional/psychological wounds that need healing: whether it be from bullying; alienation due to feeling or being treated different or being misunderstood; abusive parent(s) or something similar; or perhaps even chemical level clinical depression that requires meds. Regardless, just as you would go to a doctor for a broken arm or infected respiratory system, you go to a doctor for a broken spirit or an infected psyche.
Remember, don't just settle for the first therapist who'll take you in: act like a boss, and the therapist is an employee you are interviewing for the most important job at You Inc.: healing your mental and emotional scars. Try to go for a psychotherapist with a PHD if possible, or that at least has training and experience in actionable and structured therapy.
For example: if you ask them about specific steps and actions and structures concerning how they're going to make you better, and the answer with some malarkey like "It's a process" and the therapy is basically the two of you talking a lot, kick 'em to the curb. At best, you've got someone on your hands who doesn't know they're doing and might as well be a glorified best friend whom you pay to talk about your problems with. At worst, they're a quack taking you for a ride. Either way, all the talky talk will make you feel better for awhile during the "process." But after the therapy's done and you're not talking to them anymore, you'll find that those old demons start creeping up on you and you'll find that nothing's essentially changed.
If, however, they answer your question with stuff like CBT, DBT and/or EMDR, along with specific actionable steps and even group therapy as an option, you're in good hands. Also, make sure you have a good rapport with said therapist and can trust and feel comfortable talking about uncomfortable things with them. If you aren't feeling it, once again, kick 'me to the curb.
4) Finally, you cannot ignore the spiritual dimension of all this: Here's where the canned stuff you hate, but you know is true, comes in: more prayer, more church, more Bible and Christian book study, volunteer work, giving of alms, fasting, asceticism, forming a personal relationship with your paster/priest/Spiritual Father/etc. There's no way around this: If you don't have God at the center of your life, and forging a relationship with him and living a Christlike life as the cornerstone of your healing journey, everything else I've said is doomed to fail.
That's about it. If all this has no value to you, I don't know what else to do for you other than pray for you. God bless you and help you.