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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 can really relate. To this I am 25 years old . When I was around 10 12 I was very happy I had good friends I loved to go see them they lived across the road and Christmas then was magical I always used to look forward to birthdays Easter ect now I long for those days to come back and get very nostalgic by them I remember for my birthday one year receiving a transformer figure which I have somewhear I like. To keep old reminders of good times. I will watch old TV shows. On YouTube. Getting nostalgic one day I even. Walked to my old childhood home on the other side of Liverpool and just sat on the bench on the corner for hour thinking of fun I had growing up life now feels empty and boring
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  • I can really relate. To this I am 25 years old . When I was around 10 12 I was very happy I had good friends I loved to go see them they lived across the road and Christmas then was magical I always used to look forward to birthdays Easter ect now I long for those days to come back and get very nostalgic by them I remember for my birthday one year receiving a transformer figure which I have somewhear I like. To keep old reminders of good times. I will watch old TV shows. On YouTube. Getting nostalgic one day I even. Walked to my old childhood home on the other side of Liverpool and just sat on the bench on the corner for hour thinking of fun I had growing up life now feels empty and boring
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