feeling down

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.

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  • 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 

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

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