I feel as though my life has been going a little TOO well recently and that something catastrophic is going to happen in order to "balance everything out" or make me feel less happy. It's preventing me from living in the moment and enjoying what's happening right now. Has anyone ever experienced this type of anxiety? Any tips on how to handle it?
I feel this all the time! I try to remember what my therapist would say about living in line with my values instead of choosing fear. Hook statements might be helpful, like, “maybe that could happen, there’s no way to tell, right now I want to enjoy this moment.” And pick and do one thing to enjoy the moment.
Yup get this allll the time, sometimes what helps is just grounding Like ok this concern exists but I’m here and I’ll just kinda take note of what I’m doing and let that feeling exist It’s not always easy but sometimes you gotta ride out the ick
anyone get paranoid when things are going well that you anticipate something bad?
i’m not sure if this is an ocd thing or just an anxiety thing but i find it very hard to sit comfortably with being not anxious. i used to be involved in a lot of stressful/anxiety inducing relationships or situations in the past and now i’m in really good relationships with friends and my life is a lot less stressful but my brain is stuck in that anxious zone. if i have a good week and i think my life is going really well then the next week i start overthinking everything and searching for something to be wrong and then i make myself anxious over these problems that don’t even exist. it’s like i can’t relax because i expect something bad to happen. i’m not sure if many others have this issue but any advice is appreciated
So lately I’ve been feeling better and happy I’ve been laughing with family and friends but sometimes when I do laugh because I get a burst of happiness I instantly get anxious and get intrusive thoughts trying to tell me that it’s weird that I’m happy.. that something must be wrong because I feel happy.. or I feel happy it must not be real My brain goes through everything trying to convince myself that my happiness isn’t real and it ruins the whole moment for me when I feel the happiness… it scares me. Any reason why this is happening or can anyone relate and give some advice?
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