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Brain not allowing you to be happy

Billy87

Does anyone else feel like their brain doesn't allow them to be happy even when life is actually quite good?


It always feels like my brain is working against me and my worst enemy, does anyone else get that?

It will just see the negative or come up with random anxieties just to keep me in that place 

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  • I think it takes a long time for me to catch up with how I’m feeling. Often, something incredible will be happening in front of me and I don’t really register anything in terms of emotions. It’s later that I then feel those things. It can be hours, days, weeks and even, with some specific feelings, months later some times. I find understanding my own feelings quite challenging though in fairness. I definitely feel things. Quite strongly in fact. Sometimes too strongly. I just often can’t vocalise or even internally explain what it is I’m feeling. Somethings feel ‘right’ and good. Others, ‘wrong’ and bad. It’s only after I have caught up, however long that takes, when I can see the nuances in between good and bad and speak more in depth about it all. I think this delay has often led me to believe that ‘I can’t be happy’ or that I’m sad etc. I’m starting to see that I’m just on a bit of a delay and the words and appropriate expressions come later. I hope this makes some sort of sense, but perhaps it doesn’t.

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  • I think it takes a long time for me to catch up with how I’m feeling. Often, something incredible will be happening in front of me and I don’t really register anything in terms of emotions. It’s later that I then feel those things. It can be hours, days, weeks and even, with some specific feelings, months later some times. I find understanding my own feelings quite challenging though in fairness. I definitely feel things. Quite strongly in fact. Sometimes too strongly. I just often can’t vocalise or even internally explain what it is I’m feeling. Somethings feel ‘right’ and good. Others, ‘wrong’ and bad. It’s only after I have caught up, however long that takes, when I can see the nuances in between good and bad and speak more in depth about it all. I think this delay has often led me to believe that ‘I can’t be happy’ or that I’m sad etc. I’m starting to see that I’m just on a bit of a delay and the words and appropriate expressions come later. I hope this makes some sort of sense, but perhaps it doesn’t.

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