Is It Normal To Freak Out At Good Things?

[RussH]

I am not so sure that it is the good news that is causing you to have the panic attack, as much as it is your wondering when the other shoe is going to drop. We become conditioned to expecting bad things, so when something good happens we naturally expect it to be followed by something bad.

 

[Poofycat]

I struggle more with good new than bad news. For some reason with bad news my brain says "I got this. Nothing out of the ordinary here." But with good news it just short circuits.

wondering when the other shoe is going to drop.

definitely this too.

Congrats on the positive life changes, @MesaRock!

 

[Changing4Best]

I think sometimes when things are going good, I fear that they will not continue to be that way. I fear losing friends, because I have lost many of them when I have had an anger flash or some other PTSD thing happen to me when I was with them. The other thing is dissociation. Someone can get insulted if you blank out and then have to ask them what they just said. I value friendship highly and a world without friendship would break my heart!

 

[deleted]

Completely!!

When something happens to me I react the same way-I think my brain just goes WTF is this and freaks out on me lol.

I think some of it is like a few other people have said-those of us with PTSD live with a struggle that seems to leak its way into every area of our lives so when something good comes along we immediately wonder what the downside is, what will go wrong and how soon this good moment will be taken away again.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

Yes, because dysfunction and pain are all that we are familiar with.