Over the last few hiundred years billions of people have centralised their populations in major cities around the world, and the jungian phenomenon known as the "collective unconscious" has 'gone supernova'. The german novel "Thus spoke zarathustra" is a good example of the kind of overwhelming psychosis' that takes over people's lives, even though it's a book about an old man who lives alone on a mountain, the protagonist is obsessed with informing the townspeople of the coming of a superman, who can conquer all obstacles single handedly!
The book was to me a satyrical comedy, and the fact that it was issued to german soldiers in ww2 a kind of bitter joke, from the aristocracy to the soldiers. But, to answer your question, you have to allow people to be miserable, sometimes.