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There's quite a few online resources to help you get the ball rolling. Check out Kahn Academy for Algebra and Geometry

I used Okcupid and Match.com for about ten years. The only "success" was one guy who love-bombed me for six weeks and then abruptly got sucked into the alt-right and got emotionally abusive. Okcupid seems to work better for polyamorous people. I used hinge for a year, dated one nice guy for a month who wasn't for me since I can't have kids and Hinge seems to be more like eHarmony, a lot of religious people who want kids. I used Bumble and Tinder for several years, no luck. Met several men on Bumble who were leading complete double lives. One guy faked a whole persona about being a old-rich Westlake kid who needed me to fit into high society and demanded I buy a nicer condo/car/wear expensive outfits and eventually dumped me for using public transportation once in Chicago because that was for "poor people", but in reality was actually himself lower middle class with lower middle class parents who had mostly worked stocking shelves at food co-ops. Met at least couple of men lying about having live in girlfriends on Bumble and Tinder. One guy who was a successful "executive" but his company was actually a shell company involved in a healthcare government embezzling scheme that was about to go to jail for five years and who had just had a boat, car and house repossessed for fraud. Anyway, 9.5 years into being single in Austin, I made an account on Facebook dating and the first hit was my wonderful now-boyfriend. We just moved into a huge house together in South Austin and are approaching our one year anniversary.

Your destroying your future with your own mind. Anxiety and depression create feelings that are very real, but those feelings aren't a reflection of reality. Once you realize your mind is lying to you, you have to be vigilant and fight it constantly. However, over time you will get better at fighting it, and it won't necessarily get stronger. One day you will think back and wonder how you were so negative to begin with.

I also recommend reading...like LOTS of books.
- The Art of Learning
- The Power of Habit
- Predictably Irrational
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The Willpower Instinct
- The Righteous Mind
- Mastery

I've been on a journey out of depression roughly this past decade. All of these books, in addition to studying cognitive behavioral therapy, have greatly helped. One of the coolest things about cognitive behavioral therapy, is that it was shown to be at least half as effective when studying it alone compared to having a licensed therapist run you through it. it provides a toolbox for the mind to cope with the situations of life.

None of this will be easy, and it rightfully shouldn't be. We've grown to used to instant gratification and distractions that you really have to go against to grain to endure the annoying, tedious, arduous journey towards mastery in anything. Even our own mind.

Have you thought about using meetup.com and going to a local meetup? Dating can be expensive but at a meetup there's less pressure to spend money but you still get to socialize with other people that have the same interest as you. And there's always that possibility that you could hit it off with someone there and ask them on a date.