Anyone ever have trouble accepting happiness?
 

Lately my life has been so good I almost feel like I can't take it. I'm not used to being this happy, I had gotten used to disappointment and depression. But now everything is turning around and it's freaking me out. I feel like a prisoner who has become institutionalized and now has their freedom. I guess it's the shock of it all. Anyone else ever feel like this?


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Yeah man. I'm so damn happy it hurts!

I have found that my satisfaction with life is similar to the tides. Sometimes I'm high, sometimes I'm low. Right now I'm kinda in the middle, and it's a good place to be.

Can I have some of your happiness? :o

;P

I have trouble relaxing and just enjoying the good times without second-guessing and wondering what bad thing is going to happen next to take it all away. I've gotten much better at just being grateful, lately, but time was when it made me so uncomfortable to be happy that I'd manufacture crises just so I'd feel I was on more familiar ground - picking a fight, finding some detail of my life to obsess over, etc.

My advice would be to just relax and be grateful and enjoy it while you can. Life can throw some shit at you and you should learn to appreciate what happiness comes along.

savor it, embrace it, enjoy it.

I used to wonder why I was receiving goodness and happiness, then realized that I deserved it. I worked hard for it.

Xiangsu,

Maybe it's something in the air in Illinois? :p

Lately, I'm feeling better than average, too. Just sit back for a moment and appreciate it, there's nothing wrong with feeling really great once and a while. If you wish, you may consider passing on some of your good mood by being kind to others you may not have normally wanted to. It's good for the mind. :)

I experience happiness in fleeting spurts but more often then not I'm enveloped in a comfortably numb malaise with lots and lots of ennui.

Hmm, I hate to weigh down the pleasantness of this thread, but I was actually thinking of how I myself have been accepting of happiness lately.

On Wednesday my wife is getting an abortion, this would have been my 2nd child. My first just turned one. I won't burden everyone with the details, but I don't want her to have this abortion at all. Not in the least. I keep thinking about the baby.

Anyway, how this pertains to this thread: I believe in the pleasures of the simple things, the sun coming out after not seeing it for days makes me happy. Seeing people in love, etc, you get the point. So now, instead of these things making me happy, I instead think of how my baby will never be able to enjoy these good things in this life. And... that turns out to make me feel pretty bad.

Sorry for the weightiness of this.

P.S. Xiangsu, is that a Pearl Jam avatar?

Yeah, I know what you mean, lately my life has been great too, I mean-------------Aw fuck it, my life fucking sucks donkey nuts.

*sobs hysterically*

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Sometimes I wish all the drama going on in the lives of everyone around me included me, but then I step back and go, naw. Life may be a little dull, but I'm at peace with it.

Unfortunately things at school and back at home are so fast paced, that even when something good happens, I always think about having to get up early the next day, or a past grade, an upcoming test, etc. etc. Unfortunately I'm being put on anxiety/antidepressents for it :(