Social - After ecstasy use

[anony]

Hi

Swim used to use ecstasy a fair amount...aswell as other drugs... but has now stopped (swim cant remember when he last used coke and ecstasy was atleast 3-4 months ago)
Now swims memory is slowly returning back to it's original state (although maybe never 100%)
But swim's issue is socialising... swim can barely hold a conversation anymore with people he doesnt know, or even distant friends for that matter. It's makin it very difficult for swim as he's single and he was never that good with ladies anyway.
At work swim is a very friendly person and will always do the best to help everyone but swims conversations with people are usually very short and swim can sometimes never really think of anything decent to say\reply with. For example, boss will crack a joke, and swim will just laugh and casually walk away and continue working.
Although close friends(and with other known ecstasy takers) it's a completely different story, swim is loud, humerous and doesn't have any problem whatsoever with holding a conversation.

Swim can't really remember this being an issue when younger\before ecstasy use. I guess the only good thing that came out of it is that swim doesnt say anything stupid anymore

Does any other swiy's experience this? Have they experienced this? Is there anything swim can do? It's starting to become a very depressing matter for swim

Thanks