If your problem is feeling sorry for yourself, you're not alone. Abraham Lincoln frequently dreamed of seeing his own coffin. Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear during a fit of despair just before Christmas 1888. Winston Churchill called depression the black dog. It shadowed him though life and finally immobilized him during his last years.
Depression seems to be endemic in contemporary America.
In fact it's the leading form of mental illness and is a health problem ranked as serious as diabetes and leukemia. You feel like there is no future worth striving toward. Despair and sadness seeps into your body. Your outlook is totally pessimistic. 2 Loss of self-esteem.