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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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  • Hi Hope,

    I do not think that my own childhood was that great. But I do find adult life and its responsibilies difficult. I have spent most of my life pretending that 'I am Ok' and 'thing are fine', as admniting that I found things difficult made me look weak. I am 39 and as I get older i realise that many things I thought I would be able to do as an adult I find very difficult. Some things don't seem to have changed since my childhood. I realte to your statement 'I don't feel my age'.

    Hope you can find some security in your life that is even better than your childhood.

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  • Hi Hope,

    I do not think that my own childhood was that great. But I do find adult life and its responsibilies difficult. I have spent most of my life pretending that 'I am Ok' and 'thing are fine', as admniting that I found things difficult made me look weak. I am 39 and as I get older i realise that many things I thought I would be able to do as an adult I find very difficult. Some things don't seem to have changed since my childhood. I realte to your statement 'I don't feel my age'.

    Hope you can find some security in your life that is even better than your childhood.

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