How often do you feel overwhelmingly happy?

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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?

I always seem to get it on Sundays. Especially if me and DH are watching the kids play. I get it more when me and DH get to enjoy the kids- we have 3 so peaceful moments for all of us aren't common.

Aw lovely post op

I feel like you described mainly when walking in the forest by my house

I did yesterday - kids had got the bus to school , I was walking in the woods with my gorgeous dog before a sunny day working from home , then beach planned in the evening - just feel v content with my lot

I have had this a few times. Usually it’s when doing something quite mundane like walking or chatting with dh and the kids or just watching tv together, but the other day I felt it while out on a run by myself. I run this route all the time but it was such a beautiful evening, there were rabbits and I just felt so warm and happy and fortunate all at once.

I'm intrigued whether we are talking about different things. I feel happy often - this morning I felt happy doing stretches at dawn as the sun came up, felt happy feeding our local fox and the birds, happy when the cat gave me a good cuddle and purr, happy doing bootcamp in the park after months online, watching the sun set behind the trees - loads and loads of small happy moments.

But that overwhelmed feeling, like your veins have been infused with happy drug - that's pretty rare and usually happens only when I;m doing something I have wanted to do for a very long time - a sort of bucket list moment with all the family, all having an incredible time.

I love that OP. I have had it a few times recently too and my life right now mostly consists of work/uni/working out (and trying to lose weight). My best friend is abroad and I miss her so much but I felt really happy the other day for no apparent reason and instead of missing her in a depressed way, I felt overwhelming happy about being reunited. Sometimes just listening to a good tune will do this. Or having a bath and relaxing!

I take it where I can get it as I suffered depression in 2019 and felt completely hopeless. Strangely 2020, despite what happened I started to feel better and now I dare say I feel really good most of the time. I still get down about this whole corona situation don’t get me wrong but it’s definitely an internal thing for me.

It is good that you recognise it. Enjoy it. Cherish every moment you feel like that.
I can think of quite a few times I felt like that, and can remember exactly where I was for a number of them. It is a wonderful feeling.
For me, those times stopped for good in my 50s as there are too many sad things there all the time - mum with dementia, how to help dad, friends with terminal illnesses etc. I still have happy times, but they are shorter lived and never that deep contented feeling you are talking about.

Another one for "never" here.

I often feel very, very happy and content. Most days.

I don’t have to work unless I fancy it, I’m out every day with my dog, I have made friends in a new area who I can call on. My DP adores me and I him. We’re just about to start the buying/selling process and that is very exciting. Getting married this year.

Most days, I think. My toddler gives me moments like that quite often, and so do spring flowers, blossom falling from trees, the warm sun filtering through the trees. I find myself grinning and soaking in the moment, and a warm glow like you say.

I'm knackered because my toddler doesn't sleep, I'm anxious all the time about work deadlines and I have a lot of job/money /house related uncertainty. But I'm content with my family and I'm glad I'm able to find overwhelming happiness in small things at the moment.

I remember feeling overwhelmingly happy during my teenage years and my early 20s when I was care free and responsibility free. Everything was all about fun. Since getting married, working, owning my own home and having children I have definitely been happy, I'm happy right now, but I rarely, if ever, feel overwhelming happiness. For example, A nice moment such as being on a beach which I love is always tinged by an issue with the kids or bad behaviour.

Quite often nowadays. I got divorced a few years ago, unexpectedly, and was devastated but I feel a deep sense of contentment so much more often now.
It's partly gratitude. I know life can be rubbish but I appreciate that just at the moment it's good. I moved house recently and some furniture was delivered last week which has really made the house feel like my home. I spent last evening sitting on my sofa, looking at the furniture I'd chosen, in the room I decorated, in the house I chose, in the sunshine and felt incredibly content and grateful.

Never. Not sure whether it’s my age or just who I am as a person. I’m in my late 20s and I’ve honestly never felt ‘overwhelmingly happy’ with life. I’ve had happier more content periods than others but generally I feel a bit ‘meh’ about things. Think it’s just my cynical outlook.

My husband makes me feel this way regularly We are extremely nauseating though (at home)!!

Never.

I'm post menopausal now but back when I had regular periods I would feel almost euphoric in the days after my period started.

Now that I'm retired I feel very content most of the time.

@DDIJ

Never. Even as a child I never felt like that. I would feel guilty if I felt happy so it's not something I would want.

I think that’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. I’m so sorry you feel like that. 💐

I’d break it down into poignancy, bliss, joy and contentment as well as happiness.

I feel happiness when walking the dog, joy and poignancy from little things like flowers, music, sunlight and bliss from duvets and chocolate.

My most extended period of happiness was the two weeks after my first child was born.

The biggest barriers to happiness for me are worry and tiredness.

OP I haven’t read your replies but I clicked on your post because you are describing exactly what I have been noticing about myself more and more recently! I’ll be sitting on the couch/watching my kids at park/cooking dinner and just thinking... I am so happy I could burst. I think we are also the same age.

It’s lovely to hear of someone who has such happy moments. I am often very happy in a similar way. It’s not easy to share to happy feelings with others as sometimes it feels like you might be perceived as boastful or prideful. I have a good marriage and two beautiful children. We have everyday struggles but I am never happier than when I’m pushing my babies around in the sunshine and enjoying them enjoying themselves. I just adore them. Wishing you many more happy glowing moments, OP.

Twice in my life.

Never- quite the opposite

I'd started feeling it pre-pandemic, but it felt objective, if you see what I mean. My life was going pretty brilliantly. Recently, I've started feeling it again, but my life is back on track after a year of it threatening to crumble, and actually, it's even better than it was pre-pandemic. I feel blissfully lucky and full of wellbeing and elation quite often.

I used to go to Les Mills CX WORX, and there was a song and a routine at the end that always flooded me with happy hormones. It was an unlikely but pure moment of the sublime, for me. That fitness class was lost to the pandemic. I know it's silly, but I felt the loss of it quite deeply.

Not as often as I would like, most recently it was after my DSis had her baby. I didn't expect to feel that way at all but I was all smiles and warmth for a good week.

I don't sob with joy, but I do sometimes feel incredibly happy, full of joy. I feel thrilled with life sometimes. I had a moment this morning, in the garden with dd, just looking up at the blue sky and blossom and I was bubbling with happiness. It's almost always nature related.