http://www.anxietyguru.net/anxiety-and-the-fear-of-happiness/ Anxiety Guru is about anxiety symptoms, causes and tips on how to overcome it. It also gives you details about the author\'s personal struggle with anxiety. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anxietyguru.net/anxiety-and-the-fear-of-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Kelly Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:43:49 +0000 http://www.anxietyguru.net/?p=278#comment-178 Excellent ideas here. I think as someone who has suffered for so long, I would indeed be scared to be happy. Primarily because as an anxious person I'd just be waiting for the ball to drop and the happiness to go away. Always expecting the bad...thus another trait of negative thinking. I think that a lot of this stems from that and simply the fact that change is quite scare for many sufferers, so to stay the same (even though it's like hell) is better than to go through change. Excellent ideas here. I think as someone who has suffered for so long, I would indeed be scared to be happy. Primarily because as an anxious person I’d just be waiting for the ball to drop and the happiness to go away. Always expecting the bad…thus another trait of negative thinking. I think that a lot of this stems from that and simply the fact that change is quite scare for many sufferers, so to stay the same (even though it’s like hell) is better than to go through change.

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