“Life Sucks!” The Secret To Victorious Mental Health

5 Ways in Using Pessimism for a Better and Happier Life

Dr Michael Heng
7 min readApr 22, 2024
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Mental health is the struggle against reality as it confronts you. You cannot change what has happened or is happening; the only effective solution is to face it with a victorious mindset grounded in pessimism.

Mental health relates to learning how to manage and deal effectively with life. Dealing with the challenges in what life imposes upon you — worry, pain, sufferings, unhappiness, loneliness, grief, and negative emotions. Our responses to these determine the state of our mental health.

It is not that life is existentially imperfect. Life is just life. Our hopes oft-times that it can be definitely better make us shout out for better alternatives. No, there are no better alternatives offering good vibes, more love, less pain, less disappointments, no grief, no sickness, and more luck, happiness, joy, and blissfulness.

Many people cling on stubbornly to the delusion that they can achieve the eternally unfulfillable perfection, leading to perpetual feelings of unfulfillment. This causes great mental health issues in relationships and life. Truth is you can never become the perfect person that you idolised; just as you will never meet the perfect boyfriend or perfect girlfriend to become…

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Dr Michael Heng

Top 50 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on CSR, Explorer, Enabler. Top Writer in Poetry. Drives ventures and enterprises. ILLUMINATION Editor and Writer.