Can You Make Yourself Feel Two Percent Better?

The best self-help advice aims hopelessly low

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A couple of weeks ago I woke up in a rotten mood. Like, really rotten.

I absolutely did not want to get up and deal with any of the things I was supposed to. I felt pessimistic, depressed, and laden with all the world’s woes. I had felt like that all week, and there was not a self…