Anticipatory Anxiety
The inability to savour pleasure in the current moment due to a perception/feeling/premonition that in some future scenario (which has yet to materialize) this may deemed inappropriate or at least not be viewed favourably.
Dictionary of Despair
The vocabulary of Weltschmerz
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