do you also get emotional when you’re TOO happy?

like if something excites you too much and it’s just a lot of emotion it just turns itself into a feeling almost like sadness? good emotions but you don’t know what to do with it all. for me it causes like the PHYSICAL reaction of sadness, like the heavy feeling, but the emotions are positive. It’s weird and i don’t really like it :/ I admit I’m also the person that almost starts crying when I see a cute animal lmao I know that’s pretty common.

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Wanderdis

This happened to me about a week ago, although I'm pretty sure it was caused by a sort of adrenalin crash. I started meds just a few months ago and had to rush finishing my exams in nov/des to be able to get my diploma (last chance before I had to pay for the whole degree again), so I was basically stuck in survival mode with my studies and workload, combined with responsibilities at home and having an almost 3 year old toddler. I finished all my exams and got my last results desember 31st (passed all exams with better grades than expected yay!) and I just started crying - at first from relief but then I just felt sad. I felt sad most of the day, but I realized that it was probably due to being finally able to relax and my body and hormoned needing to balance themselves out.

boyofsummer

1mo

Wow I did not expect this to get so many votes thanks guys

fAmDiHlDy

1mo

Yes! It feels very confusing to me cause I'm happy so why do I suddenly feel so heavy and sad? Then I start overthinking it and not even know what I'm actually feeling. I do think it might be because the feelings get so extreme (since Adhd people often feel 10times stronger than neurotypical people) that the body can't really handle it so it gets all mixed up. Idk. It's really frustrating at times. Sometimes it feels like my chest will explode because of all those feelings.

procrastequeen

1mo

i get this especially this time of year like yesterday i was opening my present from my best friend and i emediatlly burst into tears and felt like a ball of energy in my chest that was nearly uncomfortable that i didn’t know what to do with!!!

boyofsummer

1mo

that makes so much sense omfg….. the ball of energy in the chest i love how u described that i’ve felt that forever and can never put it into words it’s just That Feeling i’ve gotten used to. it’s half amazing and half really sad

Vital, Numo 🍄

1mo

For me it is not good emotions only, but when people make me compliment I am so happy, but so weird when this happens so want to disappear

boyofsummer

1mo

Ohhh that actually makes a lot of sense!

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