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Feeling extremely nostalgic.

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#1 ·
Does anyone else feel extremely nostalgic to the point of tears?

Lately I have been feeling this way and it's getting me down. I cry over the most stupidest things such as hearing the Dawsons Creek theme tune Lol (yes I do know how stupid that sounds lol) or driving past the house I grew up in. There's a lot of other things that set me off but they are probably the most ridiculous ones.

It just gives me that horrible feeling and I can't really explain it, it's almost that feeling you get when you've got a broken heart or something? It's hard to ignore.

But yeah I'm feeling pretty teary and nostalgic and I just wanted to know if I was alone lol.

Thanks.
 
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#3 ·
Yea, I do all the time, honestly it's what been getting me through most days though. I feel the need to breakdown, and then I feel better. The best thing for me to breakdown is look at this old picture album my parents gave me in 95. You're nostalgic because you're thinking about a time in your life when you were truly happy most likely. That tends to happen when we aren't at that point anymore. Especially today, so much negativity everywhere in everything, it's tough to not want to go back!
 
#4 ·
I get the same feeling. Sometimes I'll look at an old photograph of myself as a child, or even a few years ago, and I feel nostalgic. Just like you it brings me to the point of tears as well.

I think it's because when I look at old photos I KNOW it was a time in my life when things were so much simpler and I was happy and carefree. It makes me feel sad because even though my life isn't horrible right now, and I'm not depressed, I still feel like there is something blocking me from being truly happy. It's like I am so close but there's a pane of glass separating me from feeling completely "normal" and happy. I always have this lingering feeling that something isn't quite right, or something is missing.

I'm sorry if this post is depressing. What I do though to feel better and to stop myself from getting upset is to remind myself that at some point in my life I did feel normal and I was happy. I then tell myself that if I felt that way before, then I WILL feel that way again. I don't allow myself to think in maybe's or say "I might feel better". I know that I can recover and I know I will feel that way again one day.
 
#5 ·
Yes I get extremely nostalgic to that point too. Not actually for very distant memories (of childhood) so much, but of more recent, yet still bygone years. Like the places I was in 3-4 years ago, how different it is from now. I'll just think something like "so much has changed, so much has happened, that time feels so far away" and it will be deeply sad to think about. I'll lament over how it's only going to get farther away and that in a few more years the current time I'm living in now is going to be just a memory too. I just have a strong attachment but know that everything I'm attached to will become but a memory.
 
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