How would you describe this psalmist’s emotional state? Why would you describe it that way?

The psalmist describes his seasons of intense suffering - marked by loneliness, hunger, thirst, sadness, depression, ridicule, defeat, etc. How can we, as Christians, endure through seasons of suffering like these?

What does it look like to be an emotionally healthy Christian? How can we work toward it?

How is Jesus able to empathize more fully and more deeply than anyone else with the pain and suffering that is described in this psalm?