How I became happy. What about you?

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In college we studied a truth in sociology that sometimes a person must be removed from their milieu (surroundings, culture, family, environment, etc.) in order to get relief from what ails them; from what stresses them; from what torments them. I never forgot that and whenever I counseled married couples I was often very successful to separate them for a trial period. I counseled people to move away from their family or parents when there were troubles. Sometimes you just can't deal with someone's problems with drugs or personal counseling. I remember how Thomas Jefferson started suffering from migraine headaches the day he took the oath of office for the presidency. On the day he left office his migraines stopped. I was in a stress-filled profession from 1975 to 2010. I secretly suffered from depression and severe anxiety attacks. Another man in our town who was in the same profession also suffered like this. We had a mutual secret between ourselves and our doctor. We took heavy doses of several anti-depressants and anxiety medications. We did not hate our jobs, but the nature of it brought constant stress, no job security, and threats of being fired at every turn. A year a go I retired early and now I work for a company filing papers (leisurely) for half my previous salary. The day I retired I stopped taking all the pills and I have been peaceful and "normal" and happy as I never have been in my life. Is it time you quit your job and became a whole person again; a delight to your family and able to sleep like a baby at night?