Mental Health. You have to take back your sense of agency and ability to impact the environment around you. Remember and realize food, water, shelter, and cooperation with the environment are all that really matters in survival. Keep it simple and think. So many of the accepted complexities of life are all mechanism humans created themselves. We made a lot of it up and so we must be able to do something else of our own will. If anything, I've "sacrificed" a lot of participation in mainstream American society. I genuinely only participate in things that I've deemed acceptable or fit what I want to do. For example, I wont do work that doesn't genuinely interest me because I refuse to wake up hating myself in the morning. I rather have less access to monies for a period of time that take up work that is not fulfilling [it literally has to be the only option available to sustain myself in any way.]