[cyberdrunk]

Most people's lives through history was super hard. Just read some novels on XIX century or earlier (but not on lives of elites) and you'll see impressive young people being able to cope with conditions that would cause typical western XXI century person to crush under depression.

For example, even my grandmother, during German occupation of Poland, was able to take care of her younger siblings and bedridden mother, while being 14-16 years old. And, by "taking care of" I mean plowing the (small) fields they had, feeding the cow, making sure the siblings aren't starving, fending off Germans and their random executions of Polish commonpeople etc. By today's standards it's absolutely extraordinary, but it wasn't really uncommon back then.