Was 2016 the worst year?

Well, that's certainly true, and no one would argue with that, although it's amusing that you remembered it just over a year later, allowing me to draw certain conclusions for myself since then.
Overall, after a certain amount of time had passed since that event, I came to the realization that that stage in my life was necessary for my spiritual development, and since then I have felt significantly better. Of course, I had to give up all my life plans, dreams, ambitions, and my real-life social circle (completely, without exception), and generally anything that was even remotely important, which I was very afraid of at that time, but in return, strangely enough, my mental state gradually recovered, and then even improved significantly, and although I sometimes feel depressed, on the whole, I feel much and considerably better now than I did a year or two ago.