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Happiness is more of a short-term thing than a long-term thing. People who win the lottery (a huge happiness event) are happy for a couple of years, but they revert to their baseline after a bit. Likewise, people can live quite happy lives living without many of the things we in the West view as necessities so long as their situation is improving in the moment. Point being: choices you made a long time ago are unlikely to be having a large effect upon how you feel now. (Especially if there are no lingering active issues like drug use/homelessness/etc)

In the short term happiness can decline if you're failing at goals, if you have no goals, if you have a mental illness, etc. I have no way to know if you have a mental illness, of course, but if you do you are very unlikely to 'get over it' on your own without help. My wife has anxiety and my father-in-law had outright schizophrenia. Both were skeptical and/or scared of treatment, but both felt far better after getting it (and they both said they felt 'more like themselves' after treatment, which was a fear of theirs going in).

If, as I gather from the discussion, you are resisting a mental health check-up perhaps ask yourself: what do you have to lose by checking in? At this point in western society there isn't much of a stigma against people with mental illnesses. There is, in fact, probably more of a 'stigma' against people who refuse to take care of themselves...FYI.

Take care of yourself!