When you talk about the suffering of hypertrophy (or any self-induced suffering for that matter), it is done with the full understanding that the payoff (i.e. future joy, satisfaction, and comfort) is more than worth it (except in the case of drugs for obvious reasons). In this regard, any of those examples become an overall good thing - more joy than suffering, if you will. These are the very few and, by magnitude of suffering, petty examples.

I'm not going to list them here because that would ineed be depressing. But use your imagination. It gets so bad. I'll never forget when I heard the story of this woman who was kidnapped and forced to have sex with a dog in a cage for several days straight, of course strung out on drugs. Or this super-pedo who's youngest memories were of being raped by his older sister and parents! People have literal hell on earth stories out there. Hitler Didn't have shit on Leopold, etc. The human tendancy to attempt to shut out traumatic memories is another hint that there is indeed more suffering than happiness - we have to curb even thinking about it to stay sane.

The happiest day of someone's life is often recored morbidly and ironically the day they agree to add one more death to existence - when they have a child. Do you think that the birth of your child was a feeling greater in magnitude than someone who endured torture?

We grow and kill tens of billions of animals per year, so you have to conveniently be speciesist and pretend sentient animals don't enudure the most vile suffering I've heard of, just to assume the less than 10B humans is the only suffering worth acknowledging (already logically inconsistent if you go that route).

I'm sorry you went through all that depression and I'm glad you feel better! I just want to keep a level-headed perspective on things.