[xboxnolifes]

I think the two key things to consider is that: (1) humans are quite good at getting accustomed to their current situation, and (2) these degraded living situations generally happen gradually. There's no hard cutoff where one might suddenly think "welp, I've passed my threshold of wanting to live just now". Boiling the frog, if you will.

There are so many different situations I could not imagine happily living in even when I try to, but then I try to think about how I would feel if I was born into the situation from day one. I wouldn't really know any other life, and so it would just be my life. With that in mind, the most troubling thing mostly seems to be what I have perceived to have lost, rather than what I currently have. That helps me understand how you can keep on living. Even when you lose something, you still have what you still have.