Is there a word for feeling happy and sad at the same time?
Similarly, you may ask, what is a word that means happy and sad at the same time?
While somewhat broader than happy/sad, you could say ambivalent. Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone: Some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her.
Also asked, when you're happy and sad at the same time?
Talk about mixed emotions. A happy-sad state can be as perplexing to people as to psychologists. This is not about “smiling depression,” where someone feels emotional pain, but masks those feelings with a happy façade. Rather, it's truly experiencing those two conflicting emotions at once.
“With alexithymia, people often know that they are experiencing an emotion but don't know which emotion it is,” she explains. “This means they could still experience depression, possibly because they struggle to differentiate between different negative emotions, and struggle to identify [positive] emotions.