[ActorNightly]

If you turned to alcohol in the first place, it pretty much means you don't have the mental machinery in your personality to deal with adversity, which is pretty much the root cause of your (and many other people's) problems.

General happiness and fulfilment in life doesn't come from comfort, it comes from being able to being able to deal with problems effectively instead of stressing out about them or avoiding them.

The only real way to get past it is to retrain your way of thinking, which requires professional help, behavioral therapy, and possibly even psychedelics since you have had 20+ years of conditioning yourself to be the way you are now.

[mock-possum]

> General happiness and fulfilment in life doesn't come from comfort, it comes from being able to being able to deal with problems effectively instead of stressing out about them or avoiding them.

Fucking PREACH dude

[_8j50]

> ...which requires professional help, behavioral therapy, and possibly even psychedelics since you have had 20+ years of conditioning yourself to be the way you are now.

Why? Sounds like marketing propaganda from the psychoanalysis industry.

> .... General happiness and fulfilment in life

Are not related to being burned out and are overrated.

To OP: Do something else with your time, keep trying till something works out. Long time ago, I took a vacation from work that I have been enduring severe stress daily for over a year, when I got back to work it was too much.

Find something you enjoy doing and keep doing that.

[farseer]

Retraining your way of thinking only goes half way. You have to reduce the overall stress in your life, that means perhaps changing your line of work.

[taurath]

This gives me big yikes. There may not be anything wrong with their thinking, or a defect in their “mental machinery” or personality. Humans are more complex than that. It’s completely reductive of the value people have.