CTY Withdrawal

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CTY Withdrawal or Post-CTY Depression is a wave of intense sadness felt after leaving CTY. Cases of CTY Withdrawal are worse for nomores and nevermores.

After leaving CTY, many miss their CTY friends and experiences. Sometimes, this can last for a few days, a few weeks until school starts again, or until you go back to CTY the next year.

CTY Withdrawal can lead to crying when hearing American Pie or other Canon songs, talking obsessively about CTY to friends from home, and hastily organized end of summer reunions. It is also characterized by the feeling that you should have a lanyard around your neck -- in December (or around your wrist, if you wore it around your wrist because an awesome person like Jaclyn helped you braid it. Love to Jaclyn!).

For certain CTYers, Hug Withdrawal occurs as well. Hugs are often given in greetings and therefore when leaving CTY, you also leave constant hugs. Symptoms include hugging yourself very, very often.

It can also include thinking that you see your CTY friends everywhere you go (including random people you've never met in stores and on the street) and having dreams involving only CTY people and having them morph into your non-CTY friends (and being incredibly dissapointed).

It also involves mass-emailing everyone you knew at CTY, fearing that you will lose touch, and planning crappy reunions no one is able to go to. This has happened many times.

NOTE: I can verify the above symptom: thrice. -Max W.

Psht, I've had all of them, constantly. ~Yulia

They hit me like a brick the second I was driving off. ~ Chris K.

It was December and you were dreaming while driving off? -Max W.

I've definately had all of these. i thought i saw my roomate in SPAIN and the only reason i didn't go run after her to get a better look was because i knew my roomate was doing a second session then. -Clara

It's happened to me a lot especially dreams about CTYers. Leaving CTY is hard! - Peter B.

I've had several dreams in which I hugged my crush (which i did in real life but only once! BUAH!!!) :-( The hard part is that i never know that I'm dreaming when I'm in my dream. ~anonymous

Yes, it hurts like mad. My symptom is an addiction to a CTY-withdrawal pain reliever: Post-CTY Depression -Lizzy

External Links

Post-CTY Depression, the new CTY communications hub