ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Aversion to happiness

Aversion to happiness means that someone doesn't like being happy. They might be afraid of feeling good and might even do things to make themselves unhappy or not enjoy the things that make others happy. This can happen for lots of different reasons. Maybe they don't feel like they deserve to be happy and they worry that it won't last. Or perhaps they're afraid of being disappointed if things don't turn out the way they hope. Or it could be that they don't trust themselves to handle the good times; maybe they think that if they become too happy, something bad will happen.
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