Well my take is that first off, being irritated or something is not unusual or necessarily bad. Everyone gets bored or tired with their job. That happens routi

Well my take is that first off, being irritated or something is not unusual or necessarily bad. Everyone gets bored or tired with their job. That happens routinely, since jobs are repetitive and tedious sometimes. Everyone has frustrating situations. And I think you are mistaken if you think that being optimistic comes _before_ resolving those frustrations. There might be a massive amount of BS trying to convince people they can just take a few deep breaths or something, but that's nonsense. The feelings are there to help you manage your life. Those emotions are a high level cognitive feature, not a bug. They are there to tell you that you have unresolved issues. If you literally have a lot of problems you are responsible for, then that is not emotional dysfunction, it's just that you have a lot of unresolved things irritating you. One thing that I think I need to do is get more sunlight. I often don't go outside hardly at all and humans need a minimum amount of sunlight. Another thing I would say is if you have a way to offload some of your problems by delegating that might help. Also obviously make sure you have something fun to do exercise wise for stress. I like table tennis in VR. One other thing that helps me is to try to find ways to stay engaged. Being stuck on the same project can be tedious. When there is something shiny and new to focus on it can help renew motivation. So maybe let yourself have just a little time to get distracted by future plans or things you don't necessarily really have time for. As long as you can moderate that, it may help you pull through when dealing with the more tedious or negative problems that come up repeatedly.