Please tell me how to deal with limerance. I'm in really a bad situation. Please.
I'll request you to read this text whole. So you understand it pretty well.
I'm in collage. In my early 20s. But i have less experience and very underconfident. Feel afraid with trying something new. Also, kinda skinny bodied and looking younger than age. I've been dealing with these for almost all of my life. But in collage this became already too much regarding how far ahead everyone is of me. And include in slight body shaming.
I've been an introvert all my life. Have very small connection. But in collage i suffered for it more. I didn't approach people that even could be similar minded with me and spent a long time absolutely in isolation for a frmew months. I had a very small but still connection always - like my parents, siblings, friends unlike college. But now, I'm trying to make connections in which luckily I'm progressing, but then came limerance. Which made everything more distressing.
Basically, it happened almost end of the lonely months in collage. There i met a girl ; same like me looks younger and very cute and a tomboy type of girl. Like literally once in a lifetime you see this type of girl. Unlike me she was very smart and confident. We also shared same interests like politics, cinema, music literature etc. While i first saw her, i was like 'wow, she's the coolest person I've ever seen'. I met her through one of my friends. I barely talked with her that time. But i was so mesmerized by her. Then, for a couple of days i thought i need to be friends her (absolutely not in a romantic way). But then, from the third day things started to get change. I started daydreaming and fell in love with her instantly. It was a prize and punishment together. But even in all these days i didn't met her. Then, after 2 weeks i found that she have a partner. I was absolutely broken. I cried for the first time in a long time. Trust me, it wasn't like the 'crush is just a lack of information '. I've been absolutely sane throughout this whole time but she is absolutely different and unique. Now, it's been more than 3 months. We barely meet. But just because i love her I didn't stick around with her at all. I'm living absolutely normal life like any other time. In one sense, I'm communicating with her like generally 'a not so close' friend would ; same as her. We are in a same club and some groups so we meet maybe 2-3 times a week. But we both treat each other like very normal friend. But for this 3 months I'm just dying inside. It's my first crush. I always thought all these heartbreak are just hormones and nothing. But now i realise how painful is this. I know i might sound dramatic, but it's the most painful feeling I've ever felt; even more than the time my brother died when i was 8. (Weirdly, Between this months , i had a sudden pause in this limerance. I was in peace. But only after a couple of days this started to happen again which is still going.) As I'm becoming a part of that friend circle more and more, we are communicating more than before. And now she isn't understanding it but my situation is bad as before. Now I don't know what can i do in this situation. Getting out of that circle is not an option because they are the only friends i have here.
And not only that, after having crush on her, my sexual urge has badly declined. Trust me in this whole time i haven't thought any sexual feeling for her. It's not that I didn't masterbate or fantasize sexual videos or reels. But even these don't happening with that intensity. I also have lost my interest on more feminine women. I don't know but it feels like my unconscious is treating them like inferior.(I'm sorry But I'm not being disrespectful here. It's just how the problem is. I don't objectify women and not a porn addict).
It feels like I'll never be able to love or being loved by anyone. My mind is making constant rules for myself. I'm fucked.