All of us on this site have a health condition which affects our lives but medical research has proven since the beginning of time that successes at being able to do our interests and focusing on happy things really does alter brain cells and have great affects on our physical health too. Does anyone else have real problems with trying to help yourselves but other peoples miseries push you right back again? I went through a really long period of isolation and distress and it took a lot of determination to try to get out in the community again but people seem to have lost the social skill to enjoy what they are doing and force moans and negatives on me that make me go home and go to bed in tears. Today, it took me hours to dress and go out and I was loving the little bit of sunshine and went to the local shops. As soon as I walked in a total stranger came up to me ranting on about a newspaper story and people on benefits, then when I walked home I went into another shop where the staff were moaning at everyone about working on Saturdays and then when I walked along the street a newly disabled lady and I chatted and she kept prying into my personal private finances and life and I had to repeatedly tell her I am a very private person, then at home a local person just loudly moans all day long regardless of who hears. It is not yet 3 pm and I am exhausted.