You can't escape from this, sadly. You are destined to live a low-end life and just slowly dwell in mediocrity all around, or take a wild gamble and either succeed and live a consumerism dream, or lose it all and wake up in a ditch one day. The first one is less risky, you would think. Well, nope, unfortunately. That actually depends on your way of life and occasional luck, whether you will be caught in some clusterfuck or not. You cannot predict this - all you can do is to minimize your chances. So, as a round-up - there is no safe place on this planet. God has either left this world, or he is ignorant to the horrors that take place in his Kingdom.
But hey, it's the only world you got. You may or may not be grateful for it, but it's not like you can change anything here. Thus, the logical course of action would be to just keep it low in terms of impact on the world. Yeah, you might be thinking something like "but I wanna leave my mark in history or just have some people to attend my funeral". This is pointless. We all perish someday, after a few decades no one will remember your name. The only real confirmation of the fact that you existed will be your death record, along with billions of others.
So, you might now have a question - what's the point of life then? The answer is simple - there is no point. You can make one yourself or just copy someone else's. No one will judge you, since no one cares about you, really. Not even your parents, siblings, friends, perhaps only loved ones, but that also is arguable. In the end, you are on your own. And this is the definition of freedom, take it or leave it. And no one will judge you for choosing volunteer slavery over being bound only by yourself - since no one cares, again.
It doesn't matter if you smoke or drink or do neither, if you donate billions of dollars to charity or murder people for the sake of murder, if you are a law-abiding citizen or an international terrorist. There is no difference between heaven and hell, since none of them exist. You will simply cease to exist as a person the moment your body dies. All your problems and achievements will be untied from you, and will fade away into nothingness over some time. The dead do not care. And assuming the world we live in, you are already dead. For most of you, your whole personal life is no longer private, but just an entry prompt for the advertisement algorithm. Your food is designed to deliberately keep you barely functioning, so you have no resources to change the system. And you have been and currently being indoctrinated into following the societal wormhole that will silence your own thoughts. So you are no longer a person - you are a property, an object, a shell of identity, a post-human.
The last question I will give you an answer to today is "how do I help myself?". It's simple - I don't know. It's you who should do this, because no one including me do not care about you. If you want to do something about it - find a way. No one is going to do this for you. And ask yourself first - maybe you are fine with your current situation?
Almost everything written here is not an opinion, but an objective truth that can be confirmed with either common sense or a quick internet search. Go ahead and do that if you must.
And a tip at the end - never lose your smile.