Is it normal to get depressed when watching teen films?

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I'm currently watching many teen films as some sort of therapy, because it enables me in a way to revisit certain periods of my life, such as the teen years (I'm a guy at 29). However, it's a two-edged sword, as it usually ends with me getting deeply depressed because I become aware of how I missed out on things relating to love and relationships. I did never experience the things shown in teen films. Now, after many years, I'm a lot wiser, but back then I was being naïve and unconfident, among other things. I was in need of someone to take me aside and give me some good advice and encouragement, but unfortunately, those crucial moments never happened.

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago | pl

    Funny thing, "I did never experience the things shown in teen films"; neither did anyone else! Those films are Hollywood fiction, fiction; IE: NOT REAL. I thought by 29 you'd have grown up enough to realize that.
    Had "someone to take me aside and give me some good advice and encouragement" I'm pretty damn sure you would have blown them off, anyway. Teens think adults are the stupidest creatures on the planet, don't they? So what makes you think it would have been different for you?
    Here's some advice which I'm sure you won't take either; throw the fiction in the trash and go live the real life you have. If it isn't the life you want, then get off your ass and make it the life you want. There are no answers in what might have been.

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  • Aveena27
    9 years ago

    It is normal EVERYONE has that feeling but we don't consider it depression it is nostalgia. Nostalgia is bitter sweet, yes you want to return to the days of old or home, your days of youth but then you have regrets about what you didn't get to do and an urge to relive it. Here is the kicker YOU ARE AN ADULT!!! Yay! You can do anything you want now! So you have a chance to recreate a lot of memories and make new memories!
    What I mean by this is I went to prom but hated my pictures felt it was drab and not as fun as I thought it would be so me and my Highschool friends got together and threw a ball in our old neighborhood, the word spread on facebook like wildfire and we had over 300 and some even invited thier parents! They all showed up in tux and gowns. We had balloon arches and a photostand a DJ and it's all people could talk about. We are planning one every 3 years now!
    You don't have to redo prom but you still have time to make goodtimes, plan a trip to Vegas or Mexico with your highschool pals or new pals, you don't want to look back in 5-6 years and say "I wish I had done more before I was 35.

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  • patsox123
    9 years ago

    I'm glad I'm not a teen anymore, but sometimes I feel depressed knowing I didn't get the storybook ending. I don't get super depressed, but I feel you man.

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  • cupcake_wants
    9 years ago

    Shit, im 38 & im glad im not a teen anymore. Curfews were lame, being self conscious sucked, not having money, no wisdom, etc etc. movies are made but theyre for entertainment only. Theyre one sided not very accurate

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  • Aeon
    9 years ago

    Those movies are as realistic to teen life as the matrix is to a real battle...

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  • FireFlower
    9 years ago

    They're mostly really stupid, too.

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  • kingofcarrotflowers
    9 years ago

    I get this, before my anxiety I was going out, meeting people I'd just started to live like it when it kicked in, never had a teenage romance, loads of friends, good times etc, so when I watch films like it then it gets me down, despite them being romanticized, the breakfast club gets me down the most,

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    • noid
      9 years ago

      I like The Breakfast Club too.

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  • handsignals
    9 years ago

    I went "ALL THE WAY WITH STEPHANIE KAY!" :)

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