A question about happiness: Is this normal?

I have suffered from depression as long as I remember, even when I was a child (as early as 8 or 9). I am taking medicine and feeling a lot better which is great, but occasionally I think I might get too happy. I start feeling almost high, and thinking life is so beautiful and perfect, and sometimes I even get teary eyed thinking about it. It is a very powerful feeling, and I don't know if this means something is out of whack with my medicine, or if this is what happiness is, and I have just never felt it before.

Answer:
It sounds pretty normal (and pretty wonderful, especially if you aren't used to feeling that way, right?).
However, there are a couple of medications that can cause manic-like symptoms as one of the side effects. I'm not convinced that's what's going on in your case. Nevertheless, I just thought I would include some symptoms of this, just FYI:

Your level of excitement is out of proportion with what is happening around you, speech speeds up or you are more talkative than usual, hyperactivity or hypersensitivity, a flight of ideas or racing thoughts, decreased need for sleep, inflated self-esteem or gradiosity, excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments), increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation.
If you have not experienced any of these symptoms, well that is good. and I'm glad for you that you've finally come to a place in your life where you've found a medication that works for you and you can start really enjoying life.
I'm a very happy person and I've never cried about anything...so I would say it's not normal, or maybe you are just over sensitive...
I wish more people had that complaint...talk to your Doc if you want an answer to that!
Well, i also suffer from depression..(im just 14)
I do take lots of medicine
but i never feel like you do..
maybe the medicine has a different reaction on you
that it does on me.
In my case,
it just makes me stop crying
and sleepy sometimes?
=/
Anyways, if you feel happy
lucky you
& enjoy it
cause no one diserves
suffering
not even
bad people.

*Luck with that okay? =)

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