Your mental health gets better once you understand how to stay playful and relaxed. You don’t need to chase opportunities, you need to enjoy becoming the kind of person who gets lucky, then get rid of your ego and put yourself in situations where the odds are in your favor.
When you live in a society that rewards playing stupid games, you have two choices. Either you choose to stay there and steadily become a version of yourself that optimizes for these kind of games, or you choose to move to a place where people play smarter and wiser games:
There are tons of people who neither lacked intelligence nor talent, who ended up extremely far from where they could have been, because they never understood the importance of cultivating courage and mental strength.
It's very easy to stay productive with kids if you are an absent parent; it's very easy to get rich if you don't mind throwing away your integrity; it's very easy to be free if you only care about yourself; but walking a very easy path now means paying a very tough price later on