Feeling Stuck in My Own Body

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100% relate. I dropped out of highschool freshman year due to mental health and I feel like I've barely developed since then. I still feel no older than maybe 16, and tend to regress even further on bad mental health days. It makes it hard to take care of responsibilities. It's really strange to experience.

yes! that makes perfect sense you could have described it better. the only way I could describe it is feeling like I got emotionally mature at a specific age and my maturity is now stunted at that age as my physical body keeps getting older. I never emotionally or mentally feel as old as I physically am. like I'm constantly mentally trying to play catch up with how old I'm supposed to be if that makes sense. LOL, I guess it's just my roundabout way of saying that I get what you're saying.

I'm 20 years old and sometimes I feel like a 15 year old stuck in the rong time. So don't worry your not a weirdo.💖

I feel the same way omg

I relate to that. I attribute (at least some of) it to traumatic/adverse experiences I had growing up, as well as that I started experiencing psychiatric symptoms fairly young. I’m 26 and have been on my own since age 18, but still have times when I have to repeat to tell myself “I’m an adult” because I don’t always mentally feel like I’m there 🤷‍♀️

21 now, but i often mentally feel anywhere between 13 and 21. i'm already bad at letting go of the past and reminisce a lot as it is, but something about my mental health just keeps throwing me back to feeling like myself from those years. i feel inadequate and not adult enough sometimes as a result.

I feel this way all the time. I am 29 but I feel mentally like I'm 18-20. Which to me is scary because I'm about to turn 30. But I just remind myself that having some of the issues I have it would sometimes feel that way. My kids are 2 and 3 and they are my reminders that I can do anything. It does get better. Hang in there you are not alone

I feel the same way sometimes! In fact I was just thinking earlier today about how I still feel mentally 15 despite being physically 20, like my brain stopped going and my body left it behind when I got sick The stresses of adult life can feel like too much and it makes me feel like a kid who doesn't know what's happening lol so you're not alone, don't worry!