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Nostalgia and obsession with the past

Hope

I live in the past. I fear the responsibilities that adult life brings; I endure bittersweet nostalgia for my childhood and schooldays, when things were safe, predictable, structured, choice was limited and my anxieties were safely contained. My past seems like a golden age, a perfect time, like a perpetual summer.

I am immature, emotionally, that is. I don't feel my age, and I am anxious nearly all the time. It is because of my anxiety that I yearn for a simpler time.

Are there others who are trapped in the past?

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  • At age 52, living in the U.K. 20 years but raised in Rural Ireland, with a rich traditional Irish Catholic heritage, as an Irish patriot with the condition, diagnosed during Covid, I’ve come to realise that a lot of changes have happened since then and I’ve also come to understand why I was wrong on so many things in my youth in the 1980’s and lacked the basic “cop on” required that everyone else in my home village in Ireland had - a few years ago, I went back to my traditional Irish Catholic faith after experiencing prejudice and discrimination before my diagnosis from within the LGBT community 

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  • At age 52, living in the U.K. 20 years but raised in Rural Ireland, with a rich traditional Irish Catholic heritage, as an Irish patriot with the condition, diagnosed during Covid, I’ve come to realise that a lot of changes have happened since then and I’ve also come to understand why I was wrong on so many things in my youth in the 1980’s and lacked the basic “cop on” required that everyone else in my home village in Ireland had - a few years ago, I went back to my traditional Irish Catholic faith after experiencing prejudice and discrimination before my diagnosis from within the LGBT community 

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