You’re being down voted because your entire reply sounds like, “Well, if you’re depressed, have you tried being happy?”

“Unhappy” could be because your basic needs aren’t being met, or you don’t have enough time/energy outside of your two jobs to pursue any happiness. Or you could have just been broken up with, or lost a loved one. Or you’re disenfranchised with your government, you don’t feel represented, you’ve just lost to fascism. Or it could be chemical imbalances in your brain leading to a variety of potential mental health issues, or simply being neurodivergent. Or you could be LGBTQ+ in a place where it isn’t safe to be that, or you don’t have rights, or you are outright illegal.

Telling anyone living under those or similar circumstances to “just be content” is just insulting. Being “content” doesn’t put food on the table or a roof over your head, and it doesn’t improve the quality of your life under a system designed to destroy as much of your quality of life as possible.

Telling someone who is struggling to be neurodivergent in a world designed by and for people who are neurotypical, what contentedness are they supposed to find in life being a daily struggle in ways they may not even be able to explain, or that sound unreasonable to the average neurotypical.

Where is someone with mental/physical health issues but no access to health insurance or healthcare supposed to find contentedness in that situation?

Notice how in a lot of my examples, “happy” is more closely aligned to “comfortable” than it is “overfilled with joy and ecstasy every waking moment of the day.” You can’t tell people to be content when they’re uncomfortable, especially when that discomfort is likely a result of basic needs not being met.

I had a coworker who cited music licensing as the sole reason he can’t find his favorite show anymore: The Drew Carrey Show. Whatever schmuck owns the music licensing refuses to cooperate with the rest of the show owners, so it can’t be streamed or distributed anywhere.

Another example would be Scrubs, most of the songs used in the show (including key moments and the OG songs were perfect for them) have been edited out and replaced because of licensing issues. Unless you’ve got the DVDs or pirated older versions, you’re stuck with the new music and it’s not the same.