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I don't have any friends (mostly due to my social phobia and anxiety issues), but there a lot of times where I feel that I don't even want friends. Is it healthy to not want to interact with others?
 

You do not need friends to be happy but sometimes you can get lonely, feel unwanted, isolated and uncared for, without any friends or people in your life to care about you or to care for. I occassionally like to have a few friends round and cook a meal where we all can sit and enjoy it and have some social interaction and it makes me feel good and happy in a way.  Sometimes I like and miss having people around me and other times I don't want to be bothered having anyone around me at all.  But when it is time to have friends or people around me, it is always welcome as I feel both balances out.  'There is a time and a season for everything ' as Ecclesiastes 3 in the Bible points out and to which I totally agree. That  I think may also includes a time to have friends for social interaction etc., and a time not to be bothered with anybody, if you don't feel like it.  But I do not think humans needing friends is the only deciding factor, in being happy. Maybe, happiness depends also on the type of person you are or the type of person or people you are happy with.

M.D

I think humans need others to be happy. Why else would you seek out our advice on this website? I think the comfort you seek in social interactions is less what you are afraid of, and your phobia is more about saying the right thing or having people looking at you. Try meditating in a public park, or sitting by yourself at a restaurant, and try to imagine all of the focus on everyone else.