How often do you feel overwhelmingly happy?

[thereoncewaslove]

I feel overwhelmingly happy/content very frequently lately. Nothing has really changed and my life isn't perfect, I'm still at uni, I still have a while to go before I'm in the job I want to be in but I'm pretty happy with my lot at the moment.

There's been other times in my life where I should have felt that happy/content way, in a happy relationship, just had child, getting promoted at work etc but for some reason then I always felt like something was missing.

But recently I just feel very at peace. Today I have lay in bed and watched films, chatted on the phone and I was just making a coffee there and I have this warm content happiness feeling in my stomach, it's always like a glow. And it got me thinking that I'm experiencing this quite a lot recently out of nowhere.

I spent a lot of my teens and my early twenties not very happy at all and I don't know if it's now that I'm turning 30 that things that used to upset me don't seem as important anymore. It's a lovely feeling and I wish I could bottle it up when going through bad times.

Does anyone else get this feeling? Can you explain it? How often do you experience it?

Never.

I feel happy a lot of the time but I don't think I've ever felt "overwhelmingly" so.

@Eyevorbig0ne sorry to hear that

I feel similar - i experience these moments of pure contentment so much more now i’m in my thirties. As you say, not caring as you get older and having more perspective on life helps! The other day I was in the kitchen watching the birds in the garden and drinking a cup of tea and had one of those lovely unassuming ‘life is bloody brilliant’ moments

Occasionally!

Fucking never

Lovely you’re feeling so contented!

Honestly I’m not sure I’ve ever felt like that, maybe when I’ve left a job and just before I start a new one, so I can switch off from work entirely. Maybe when I’ve been on holiday? I need to get better at switching off!

'overwhelmingly' happy? What precisely do you mean by that?

I don't know if I don't feel as strongly as other people or just don't describe things in the same way.

Very contented in my 50s here. I work on having gratitude for what I have - a good relationship with the people who are important to me, a handful of friends, reasonably good health and a job that fulfils my values.
We are not wealthy but we have everything we need. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and I wish the same for everyone.

Not for a very long time. I do feel contented..sometimes. But rarely happy and never overwhelmingly so. Which is sad. I was thinking about this the other day. The last time I remember feeling happy was about 12 years ago.

The way I'd describe it is that it's like the opposite of depression - absolutely a blessing if you can feel this sometimes, it's like nothing else. I used to get it more than I do now!

Not often. I spend too much time thinking about what I need to do and never really managing to do it all.

Never

Yes I do occasionally!! Interesting it’s never at the ‘big times’ of life - ie my wedding day , I was just stressed, when the babies were born I was off my face on drugs/hormones 😂 Work has never made me happy. Sorry to say that DH and the kids are a source of anxiety more often than not .
The happy moments come just walking down a sunny street looking at the sky and listening to the birds, being in water, walking along the sand on a beach , weirdly camping and walking back to the tent in the dark sometimes 😂 Singing my favourite songs in the car.

When I sit with a cup of tea and watch my kids run with reckless abandon onto the beach, or towards a ‘paddly’ river, laughing. Not bickering. Not moaning. Just having good fun.

I'm another never

About once every week or two I get that really enormously happy, everything is right with the world feeling. Usually very ordinary moments but I really appreciate them

I wouldn't say overwhelmingly so, but my moods are pretty intrinsically linked to my menstrual cycle. I can tell when I'm ovulating as I get a bit giddy...

On the reverse, the nearer I get to my period, the lower my mood sinks.. Then on day 1, something just lifts.

Not that often. It takes something big to make me feel overwhelmingly happy or excited.

Very often. I did today actually, and yesterday. I'm having such a great time at work at the moment and really looking forward to going in again tomorrow. I call them moments of pure happiness. But it often lasts much longer. All day even. I have learned to really appreciate them.

Or running.. That a good promoter of euphoria.. Not that I have the time currently...

I think I understand what you mean OP, but I wouldn't describe mine as 'overwhelming happiness' - to me that is jumping for joy type situation.

I'm more content overall; appreciating the little moments, and enjoying them with a warm glow in my heart.

Letting go of the things that don't matter, and focusing on small positive elements in your life makes a huge difference. Although I acknowledge to someone in a depressive state that may seem impossible in the moment.

All the time. But then all my emotions are kind of extreme. When I’m sad I’m utterly miserable, when I’m happy I’m overjoyed. The feeling of overwhelming happiness usually comes from little things - having a good book to read, or something good to eat, or a really cold drink, or driving somewhere nice, or laughing at something the kids have said or done.

Much more often now I'm in my late 30s. I'm done with the stream of deadbeat idiot men, I finally found my lovely DP, I have my own little flat, happy with the way my career is shaping up after a long time of just letting it float along. There are ups and downs of course but I'm generally more content than I've ever been.

A baby or two would round it off nicely, but I actually sometimes worry that they'll bring back the anxiety and uncertainty of my younger days

Overwhelmingly happy to me means eg sobbing with happiness when we got engaged, sobbing with happiness when my babies were born.

Very happy - most days. This happens when I've done a really good workout (endorphins), cuddle my dog, lie in bed reading next to DH with the dog snoring at the end of the bed, when I'm out with my children and they make me laugh. Or (though it's been a while) when I'm out with my work mates and we're having a drink and they're making me laugh til I cry.