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Originally Posted by *Beth*
I know that feelings of nostalgia are usually attributed to older people, @rdgrad15, but young people can certainly feel nostalgic. Who knows why? I think of depression as a possibility, but maybe not.
I've even known perfectly so-called "normal" children who had a sense of nostalgia for something.
I was a sensitive, dreamy-minded child and had strong feelings of nostalgia when I was young, no doubt about it. But I was also a traumatized child and one with mental illness.
I won't minimize the feelings you have; I don't know why you have them, but if you say you do, you do. I won't doubt you.
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I can definitely see depression triggering an unusual amount of nostalgia especially if the person with depression wasn't always that way. That's probably where it crosses the line into unhealthy rumination and therapy is needed since there's a fine line between typical nostalgia and a persistent and never ending state of ruminating for what used to be to the point where you can't function in life anymore. Also I was like you as a kid where I would randomly feel nostalgic too for some reason and I was very dreamy as well. I guess some are just more prone to it than others and I honestly don't know why it happens in kids but it does happen.