Of course, there's always those with legitimate mental health issues, but many people could move away from negatity if only they didn't wear it like a comfortable coat.

Ya there are people that dwell on the negatives but sometimes it's hard like you mention here with the mental issues especially depression. I think it's a bit hard to recover from depression without outside help. Even myself I had a time when I was depressed and did some stupid stuff like run away from home. Now that I look back it was really dumb but sometimes it's really hard to move on from that negative feeling as well. People sometimes get lost along the way and they really do need help from others to help them get back on track.

And then there are those who have ownership, self-responsibility and who find the courage and put in the hard work like the guy you mention.

Like this guy because he got pushed to be better by the adopted mother. I think things would be totally different if he didn't meet her or get adopted by her. So I believe a part of it is the willingness to not only move on from it but to get help from others to get out of that zone but I could be wrong.

I'm not saying it's easy, I'm sure that bloke went through tough times and had to dig deep, but staying in place, embracing the negativity and making it the reason a person doesn't move forward seems wasteful of life to me.

No worries I get what you mean. I agree with you here as well. We have to accept reality sometimes and move on and do what we can to live the best life we can. We can't really control things outside of our own life so we gotta do the best to look at the factors we can control and one such factor is our mood and feeling