I have a good life why am I not happy?

Although your life is good, are you living it the way you want? Are you living it in a way you’ll find joy.

Having a good life or being "privileged" has nothing to do with being sad or depressed. You could introspect and ask yourself why you aren't happy. More often than not we already know the answers in our hearts, we're just afraid to accept it. Once you are self aware and accept your emotions and why you feel a certain way, you can deal and work on them accordingly.

People can feel happy or unhappy at certain periods of time regardless of how generally good or bad their life is. It is physically impossible for us as humans to be happy all of the time. If you think you have a good life but are still unhappy, you must further assess what is making you unhappy. Maybe you have good relationships with the people in your life but your career is stressing you or vice versa. Maybe you have a lot of physical blessings and are privileged in that regard but have an emotional emptiness of loneliness. Unhappiness every now and again is completely normal and nothing to feel guilty over.

You have a good life but perhaps not what you want in life. We all want different things in life. Some people want materialistic items to make them happy such as clothes, cars etc. Others want people in their life such as finding love might make them happy. What do you want in life, do you have them? If so you may need to look into your feelings and consider the prospects of conditions such as depression where one person may have all that they want but no long find pleasure in the things that they once enjoyed due to this medical condition having such a negative effect upon them.

There could be a number of factors. It could be that your feeling numb or you may have experienced some type of trauma when you were younger, that you may not remember. This occurs in subconscious that we aren't aware of. A good place to really dig deep into why you aren't happy is to see a professional, such as a therapist or a psychologist. Other things to consider is have you experienced something big, such as moving, starting a new job, making new friends, being away from home? That could also play into why you aren't feeling too good.

Sometimes, it’s just the pressure that we’re feeling from our school, work or family. Other times, it may be due to the loneliness that we feel at home, work or school. Otherwise, it may be due to conflicts that you are experiencing in life. For instance, having to have argued with someone. Other than that, it may also be caused by our negative thinkings. By thinking too much, we tend to forget the good things in life and we focus on the bad things. That may be some of the reasons why you’re not feeling happy but it is okay. Life may be tough at times, but eventually it’ll be better and we’ll be greeted with the goods in life.

A lot of the times we don't think that because we have a stable job, roof over our heads, food in our belly and a decent amount of people in our life whom care for us is enough to say we are happy, we are just feeling more fortunate than anything else. A lot of times people can somewhat ignore this feeling with drugs or alcohol or things they enjoy doing, or finding new people in their lives or changing a part of their life or even quitting their job to do what they really love. Happiness is all what you set and want it to be, and it only comes from you. Some people or things might give off that feeling, but you'll definitely know and feel it when it's actual happiness.

Emotions are funny... They aren't predictable, are they? Sometimes people who have seemingly difficult lives can seem pretty happy, while people who have good lives can feel unhappy. When we feel fine, we don't give it much thought, but when we feel sad, we can wonder why, and how to stop it. Sometimes that sadness can make us angry with ourselves. We can tell ourselves it's stupid we feel sad, or we imagine something must be wrong with us. Rest assured, there is nothing wrong with you. Everyone can feel down, even when things are going smoothly. To get through those periods when you feel low, try not to beat yourself up. Remember that the feelings will pass. Tell yourself that you're allowed to feel whatever, it is ok to feel however you do. Even when it's hard, it's good to feel things.

That feeling of Happiness is the result of chemicals produced by the brain. If you don't feel it, your brain is probably not functioning at it's optimal levels. There may be several reasons for this: it just happened; it's a side effect of some other chemical you are taking; or perhaps you have never learned to encourage your brain to make and produce these chemicals. Happiness maybe thought of as the combination of two basic emotions, or chemical compounds in the brain: affection and kindness. If you can look back over your life and find that you were deprived of those two things as a young child, then you might not have ever learned to produce that feeling, those chemicals, in the first place. Do not despair, however, the brain is a very flexible (often called Plastic) organ, with powers to generate and regenerate functions. I would suggest that you find some way to generate those two feelings (kindness and affection) deliberately, and every time you succeed, acknowledge that, so that your brain will understand that it is doing what you want. Praise Yourself! I know that many people find this very difficult, even happy people, but it is even more important when trying to change your emotions or learn new behaviors. You might recognize it as "Positive Reinforcement". I hope these ideas are of some use to you, and that they actually do help you learn to feel Happy.

Just because you have a good life doesn’t mean you have to be happy. I have a ‘good’ life but I am actually very sad. If my parents were to look on my phone they would see that I get on here every day for help. Even though you have a good life you may feel horrible but that’s ok. Everybody has there reasons for feeling bad. A good life is not necessarily a good life. I have been through a lot but now I am having a good life but I still feel bad about everything that happened.