I feel that. Right now I feel like my life is pretty good, but there are definitely times where I feel like I can't cope with things continuing as they are. You're right about it being good to put things in perspective. I'm not sure about you and others here, but I have a tendency to project my depression onto my understanding of politics and to become a doomer as a result. Realising that I do that and that my feelings of political hopelessness were the result of being depressed was part of my process of recovering last time, so I'm glad that you and others might find my not currently depressed perspective helpful too :)