I recently went through a bout of anxiety and depression. At the core, for me, were many of the issues you bring up. Anyway I went to a very wise friend and asked him what I should do. He told me to make a gratitude list.

Believe me, I was like “Dude I need some real answers here”. His point was that I am not seeing that life is wonderful and full of blessings. The job I hate is a blessing (I don’t like what I am doing but I have to admit the money is good).

There is no end to my demands and expectations of life, they will never be satisfied because no mater how many blessings I have I only ask for “more”.

So I have been writing the gratitude list every morning for a few weeks now. It has helped tremendously.