A Breakdown Is a Prelude to a Breakdown

It's often only through breakdowns and crises that we advance towards being the sort of people that we want to be. The mind doesn't yield its best insights into its nature without a considerable amount of pain. Sometimes, in articulately, our suffering, our symptoms, our sense of unbearableness is signaling to us that we need to make a change. If we live in this state of perpetual happiness or pleasure, where is growth? How does anything evolve out of that?