Feeling that people are shit

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My personal relationships with people have been damaged and turbulent since my falling out with everyone at sixteen. It started with the senpai going to shit, and then me making a lot of troubled friends...troubled people are troublesome.

I'm getting my life together now, and hopefully things will continue to work out, but sometimes I have a really negative view of humanity and can't help but feel that existence is just futile because of this. It's got to be what psychologists would call a 'cognitive distortion', which is a pretty vague term that I don't like.

It's like, you open the news and instead of reading reports about new technology and new social programs, you watch TV news reports about war and government corruption. It's an easy way to start feeling like humans are shit.

Some days I'm working on myself, cooperating with other people and feeling half right. Other days I can only think of what's really been fucked up between me and the people I've had the misfortune of getting into conflicts with.

Instead of seeing humans as positive forces that help organize the world (except for animals and third-world savages) and create positive moments, in these moments I think about the times I've been slighted and the damage everyone does to each other with deceitful shit like lying, cheating, and rape.

Does anyone know about those dark days when it feels like people are shit? Do you have any advice on this?