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Is nostalgia good or bad for one's mental health?

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Dr. Lynne Weixel answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

It's how you use it: Nostalgia can inform beneficially, or it can just make you "live in the past". Using what you value from the past to guide your design & construction of a good life now is good. Being bitter, angry, critical, etc of the way things are now is probably bad. I have a strong feeling that you already knew this, right? Learn from the past, protect the future and live in the present in ways that do both.

Answered 6/21/2020

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