Letters to the Editor
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A caveat
When one makes a choice to not be one of the crowd and to be different regardless of the consequences, that comes with a price. The isolation can feel uncomfortable. That's why what you think about yourself and how you sooth yourself is very important. If you spend too much time on what others think, then you give too much power to those who clearly don't deserve it. -- Retired Military Patriot
Sorry to quote the whole comment, but otherwise, I'm not sure the context would be clear.
All very true, what you say, but the truth is that mental states and physical states are related. Acts change thinking more effectively than thinking changes acts. Depressed? Talk to some holy fool at a diner, or take a walk. Unhappy with the fact that you have no leverage on the bad things going on all around you, or on your own impotence? Pick up a tootsie roll (role?) and go to work.
Bye-and-bye your dark thoughts will retreat somewhere and lick their wounds. And who was it exactly, that put those flowers in your path? A thought for another day.
If you think that Pollyanna was the author of this insight, think again, preferably with a hammer in your hand.