Posted by orchid on June 21, 2006, at 13:40:13
In reply to do you ever feel really young?, posted by sunnydays on June 20, 2006, at 22:17:08
I feel very younger too. I am 29 and I feel many times like a 10 or 11 year old. And I used to act it too - people constantly used to say I am very childish even though I did all the adult things like job etc, but then I put in lot of efforts to stop that, so now I manage to atleast act my age.
I think it is part of repressive attitude - maybe I think I got stuck at 10 or 11 - perhaps a part of me did. I don't really know though. Sometimes I think it is healthy to feel younger, but then I don't really know.
> Does anyone ever find that they feel a lot younger than they really are? I looked in the mirror recently and I looked so much more grown-up and put together than I felt then. And sometimes it feels like I can put on a grown-up face to the world and handle all my responsibilities, but it feels like an empty shell, and there's this little kid that's just watching me go through the motions. But no one outside can ever seem to tell.
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> My T and I talked about this a little bit once or twice, he says that it's actually really common in people who have suffered trauma to feel young sometimes (for me, it's more when I feel sad -- and I'm pretty young anyway, I'm in college).
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> And I guess I'm just feeling kind of like a little kid tonight. I just want some comfort. I've been hugging my stuffed animal all night.
> sunnydays
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