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by krageon 2930 days ago
This is an unreasonable response - not infrequently the causes are not things that can be fixed in the short term (eg years of neglect and abuse as a child), or are simple facts of life (eg an objective purpose in life does not exist). There's a whole slew of these kinds of origins and I'd venture to say that expecting to solve them for you personally in a timeframe that doesn't lead you to die from starvation (because you cannot work in the meantime) is really not practical.

That being said, it's something I think everyone should work on. Just not as a primary response mechanism to life-destroying issues happening right now.