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When positive emotions trigger anxiety and self-sabotage

Every time I start to feel good I find something to worry about as if happiness itself is dangerous and needs to be interrupted.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unfamiliar emotional states can activate protective patterns that restore known forms of suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
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