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feeling down

NAS81026

I’m not sure if this is depression, but I’ve been really down the dumps ever since I turned 29. Reminiscing about the past a lot, mainly back to the late 90s being a kid. The old school Pokémon and Nickelodeon days, and how easy and laid back life was back then. The world also didn’t seem so chaotic as well. While I don’t miss my teen years or being in high school at at, I do miss the energy I had back then. Not sure if it’s normal at my age, but I’ve been driving for work 8 hours a day the past 7 years and now I’m feeling all the aches and pains of everything and I’m feeling like I have the body of an 80 year old. I wish I could turn back time 10 years. I’ve also been getting this feeling like I haven’t done much in my 20s as far as making friends or make any effort to hang out with anyone. I’m also a bit of an introvert and I feel like my interests are very specific, that makes finding friends that I click with very difficult. Is this all depression or something else? FYI the nostalgia is so bad it’s making me emotional throughout the day.

  • in reply to Billy87

    I feel the same, I feel physically pained by how disconnected people are 

  • in reply to Billy87

    You are right, I love being me as much as I hate being me sometimes like someone else said (i did read but forgot) sharing interests and things in common is so hard 

  • in reply to Billy87

    Two really good posts, I definitely  resonate with these. The world is so hard to navigate  these days. Good health to you

  • I really get this. I would describe my nostalgia as almost a physical pain sometimes. I hate hate hate the modern world and almost everything in it, particularly smartphones, social media and how everything that was worth something seems to have been destroyed.
    I miss CDs, DVDs, the kids programmes and music I grew up  with and just how simple life was when people had a life beyond their phone screen

    I spend a lot of my day daydreaming about being able to go back in time and imagining how it would feel. I long to experience the 90s as an adult to see how much fun it would have been and how free I would have felt. I even feel hugely nostalgic for the 70s and I didnt live through them but I have watched so many 70s TV comedies I feel like I have

    Everyone was just so much more free in the old days 

  • in reply to NAS81889

    They might look happy but they really arent. It is an illusion of happiness. The difference between them and us is they are better at pretending they are happy and their life is good than we are. we wear our emotions on our sleeves and dont know how to pretend to feel something we dont, and that is a good thing. Id rather be like us. You never need to look at them and think theyre happy cos theyre not. All theyve done is tick all the boxes for what society says will make you happy and then they have to pretend to be cos theyre too scared to admit none of that stuff actually made them happy

    We are ok the way we are even though its tough sometimes 

  • Hello, I feel like you could have described me right there, I have moments and alot of them where I just sit there wondering and feeling down I dont think for me it is depression I can only describe it as a sense of grief for all the things I have never done and all the things 'normal' people do and I dont, they all look so socialised and happy and im here begging people to do things with me

  • We were good, honest, people! But then we got screwed!

    Our expectations were high, and we were taken advantage of; by the vultures in our society.

    Driving that long, for work, is insane. I assume you're American? But we're no longer machines.

    I'm sure that you'll meet more like-minded people online.