What phobia is the fear of happiness?

Answer 1

As far as I know even the most neurotic people do not fear happiness, but sometimes people fear to be disappointed, and when they are happy they worry that the cause of their happiness will eventually disappoint them. This is more a fear that happiness will prove to be temporary or ill-founded, rather than a fear of happiness itself. And this particular fear does not have a clinical name, either. It's just a fear.

Hi, my name is Keith. I am currently at the age of 40. As a young teenager I had an alcoholic father. In our family, he had to always drive us to any social get-together and therefore he could not drink. As a result he got extremly angry in the few hours before we left. To vent this anger he made great threats to me. These threats have damaged my life. Why? Dad always wanted to please mum on those days. To do so, he wanted my sister and me to behave perfectly. Any step out of line for us ment punishment. The classic saying to me, eye to eye from him, was "IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY THIS DAY, I'LL KILL YOU...".

Now when I'm in with a social group I get distressed. A more extreme one eg. a birthday party/Christmas/wedding the more I freak/sweat/and have a fear of being happy.