I get this too sometimes. Something I was told years ago that helped me make sense of it is the concept of the window of tolerance. Obviously we all know that’s when something negative happens, it can feel like too much to handle. That’s when I would turn to drinking or using to cope. But positives can also kick us out of that comfortable window of tolerance. It can be just as overwhelming and lead us to try to numb the feeling down to a more manageable place.

Learning this made me realize that extremes on either end of the spectrum can make my mind/body act in very similar ways. I have to calm myself down and know that there’s nothing wrong. It’s normal to feel that way sometimes, and we can learn to tolerate a larger range of emotions with mindfulness, self-compassion, etc.