A lot of people have dull, meaningless lives, and they're unhappy. Talking to a therapist won't change that, unless it results in the person living differently. If someone will spend $75 to see a psychiatrist, instead of spending it on a party, that's not mental illness, that's stupidity! If you don't do anything, then of course you're going to be bored and depressed.

Because they are conditioning their happiness with limited physical resources, they try to achieve non-physical by physical means and no matter how much they expand, still they are not happy. Once they relate our experience of life to what they have or don't have - conflict is inevitable.