Can maintaining a constant engagement with philosophy contribute to one’s mental well-being? What is

Can maintaining a constant engagement with philosophy contribute to one’s mental well-being? What is your opinion? «In one thing, we have no right to complain about life: it holds no one back. Human affairs are not so bad if every unfortunate individual is unhappy only due to their own faults. Do you like life? Live it! If you don’t like it, you can return to where you came from. None of us ever thinks that we will someday have to leave this dwelling. So, the habit of old tenants makes them tolerant and keeps them in the house, no matter how bad it may be. Do you want to be free, defying this flesh? Live as if you will move tomorrow! Always keep in mind that sooner or later you will lose this residence, and then you will face the inevitability of departure. ‘When I finish this and that, then I will fully devote myself; when I resolve this unpleasantness, then I will engage in scholarly pursuits.’ — No, philosophy cannot be given only leisure; one must neglect everything for the sake of diligence in it, for which there is never enough time, even if our lives were extended to the utmost limit granted to humans. Whether you abandon philosophy for a time or forever, it makes no difference: it will not remain where you interrupted your studies, for just as what is compressed by force straightens out, everything that does not advance continuously returns to the very beginning. It is necessary to resist affairs and not allocate them but eliminate them. There is no time unsuitable for study, although many people abandon it for the sake of the very matters for which they need study. — ‘But something sometimes interferes.’ — It interferes, but not for one whose soul is joyful and uplifted in all their concerns. The merriment of those who have not reached perfection is interrupted; the joy of the wise is constant; no reason, no fate can interrupt it. The wise person is always calm, everywhere. After all, they do not depend on others and expect no favors from fortune or people. Happiness for them is like being at home: if it were a guest in their soul, it would come and go, but it was born there. The difference between one who has attained wisdom and one who is progressing toward it is the same as that between a healthy person and one recovering from a long and serious illness, who does not yet have health but only a relief from sickness. The wise person will not relapse or become more seriously ill. Health is given to the body for a time; if a doctor restores it, it is not for all time, and often the same doctor is called to the one he was previously invited to. But the soul is healed once and for all. I will tell you how to recognize a healthy person: they are content with themselves, trust themselves, and know that for a blessed life, nothing is needed except their own prayers, neither the solicitations of mortals nor the blessings they seek. Everything that can be added is imperfect, what can be subtracted is not eternal; and for one who needs eternal joy, let them rejoice only in themselves. Everything that the crowd rushes towards arrives and departs; fortune gives nothing for possession, but even her fleeting gifts are pleasant only when reason has seasoned and mixed them; after all, it is reason that knows how to add flavor even to those external blessings that are unpleasant to consume greedily.»