What Causes Unhappiness?

What makes us unhappy?
When we experience any form of unhappiness, any form of negative feeling, at first thought it seems it’s an external factor. There was something we experienced, interacted with, or consumed. Something bad happened, someone said/did something unpleasant. Something made us feel unhappy.

But why exactly do we feel so bad or crappy?
The understanding that something is making you unhappy happens as thoughts in the mind. The mind processes the experience and labels it according to your understanding of that moment. This understanding is based off our condition learned thoughts and beliefs through our past experiences.

Sometimes we are so wrapped up in these thoughts we are completely unaware this is happening. There’s no observation of the feelings and thoughts because you believe your thoughts are the truth and that you are your thoughts.

This is the ego, the mind made identity that is identified with form which is all untrue, it’s the culprit and cause of our unhappiness.
Starting to recognize this ego and when the separation from the ego happens, it is the beginning of being able to experience a happier life of freedom, peace, and joy.