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Nostalgia and obsession with the past

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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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  • As a child I was obsessed with Newcastle United. However when I got older and moved in with my partner I got into other obsession's and my partner wasn't football friendly shall we say.

    Someone at work offered my a season ticket for the night (at Newcastle) in 2008, so I "suprised" my partner and took her to a football match. She loved it and it all came back for me. We're now both season tickets holders, but for me when I'm in the stadium it is absolute escapism - simpler times if you like. I don't live in the past but things like going to the football remind me of a chilhood "utopia".

    My sister lives in the past, and I always wonder if she's on the spectrum. 

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  • As a child I was obsessed with Newcastle United. However when I got older and moved in with my partner I got into other obsession's and my partner wasn't football friendly shall we say.

    Someone at work offered my a season ticket for the night (at Newcastle) in 2008, so I "suprised" my partner and took her to a football match. She loved it and it all came back for me. We're now both season tickets holders, but for me when I'm in the stadium it is absolute escapism - simpler times if you like. I don't live in the past but things like going to the football remind me of a chilhood "utopia".

    My sister lives in the past, and I always wonder if she's on the spectrum. 

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