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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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  • I hate clubs. Don't like dancing, can't judge if people are having fun or are trying to be sexual. I often joke about never needing to ask a girl out, they've always asked me lol. But If I'm truthfull I've never approached a girl as an adult, just can't judge the situation.

    I used to visit nightspots a lot when I was younger with friends just to get out, although I frequently didn't enjoy myself, more often than not it just highlighted that I didnt fit in. I always found going to gigs easier, after the small amount of social time, a band comes on and I can relax.

    I used to enjoy alcohol and narcotics socially because I felt free, my inhabitions would go. However as I'm getting older they just make me feel poorly. I went out last night and felt really ill and depressed off two pints of Amstel. I really don't know what's going on with that.

     

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  • I hate clubs. Don't like dancing, can't judge if people are having fun or are trying to be sexual. I often joke about never needing to ask a girl out, they've always asked me lol. But If I'm truthfull I've never approached a girl as an adult, just can't judge the situation.

    I used to visit nightspots a lot when I was younger with friends just to get out, although I frequently didn't enjoy myself, more often than not it just highlighted that I didnt fit in. I always found going to gigs easier, after the small amount of social time, a band comes on and I can relax.

    I used to enjoy alcohol and narcotics socially because I felt free, my inhabitions would go. However as I'm getting older they just make me feel poorly. I went out last night and felt really ill and depressed off two pints of Amstel. I really don't know what's going on with that.

     

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