One of the biggest lessons I had to learn as an adult, and am still learning, and this is going to sound silly, is:

Problems Can Be Fixed.

Obviously not all problems, and a lot depends on available money/time/ability/assistance, but many problems can be fixed, and after identifying a problem, one should always consider if it's fixable.

Hole in your wall? You can spend years complaining about how dingy it makes the room look and how mad you are that some jerk put a hole in your wall - or you can look up "Patch Drywall" on YouTube and go to the hardware store and buy less than $30 of supplies ($12 patch, $6 joint compound, $7 "sample size" paint, $1 putty knife, $1 paintbrush) and get it done in an afternoon.

(Again, my point isn't "everyone can do this," because I realize sometimes $30 is a lot and sometimes standing up working with your hands for an hour is a lot. But sometimes you have $30 and are able-bodied but have pre-convinced yourself that only a drywall expert could do this and they probably charge like $500, and so you never bother to look up whether that's true or not.)

I'm having trouble saying this in a way that doesn't sound condescendingly obvious but it's something I genuinely struggle with. Some combination of early life experiences and inherent brainproblems makes it very easy for me to fall into a mindset of approaching even the most trivially fixed problems with a mentality of resentful acceptance.

It's embarrassing, honestly, how often I've complained about someone's unhelpful behavior and the friend I'm complaining at asks "have you asked them, like even once ever, to help you?" Of course not! They would definitely say no and then be mad at me forever for asking! I know this because [DATA NOT FOUND]

Sometimes it is literally as simple as sitting there watching a movie steaming mad that I can't hear the dialogue and the subtitles button is one centimeter away from my finger. Does it kinda suck that I need to do this because as soon as they got lav mics every director decided that mumbling was the new hotness? Yes! It does suck! That fact can be true in parallel with the fact that I still have some control over my surroundings. I am not betraying my commitment to Sound Editing Justice by taking care of myself!

(It's not always about justice and being in the right. Sometimes it's waking up and realizing that for the last two years you have been fumbling awkwardly around a lamp to turn it on because the switch is on the wrong side, and you could in fact just turn the lamp around.)

Not every problem can be fixed. But sometimes I really need to stop and remind myself that some of them can, and if my intuition is "no it's hopeless and I would make things worse," I can spare five damn minutes to double-check that.