To cheer up, fix your environment. (And your health.)
Most of the unhappiness I've encountered has related to poor environment. Wear and tear over time brought on increasing poor health -- another significant factor.
Meantime, I had people telling me I simply needed to "adapt". Consistently, I was supposed to change in order to meet their goals.
It was the rare person who simply took me as I am and genuinely sought to work with that to mutual advantage. Those people and occasions were some of the most productive of my life.
A consequence of all this, is that I tend to think quite poorly of most prescriptive advice. When people are all busy talking at you, they're hardly ever actually listening to you.
Most of the unhappiness I've encountered has related to poor environment. Wear and tear over time brought on increasing poor health -- another significant factor.
Meantime, I had people telling me I simply needed to "adapt". Consistently, I was supposed to change in order to meet their goals.
It was the rare person who simply took me as I am and genuinely sought to work with that to mutual advantage. Those people and occasions were some of the most productive of my life.
A consequence of all this, is that I tend to think quite poorly of most prescriptive advice. When people are all busy talking at you, they're hardly ever actually listening to you.