Make a viral site. Viral posts like "Top 10 most evil people ever", "Top 10 sex positions that could make you break your neck", "How to scare the crap out of your coleague", etc.
Optional step for increased control and effectiveness:
Then get a bunch (100-ish) proxies and make accounts on social bookmarking sites over a period of a month or two (the longer the better). Digg, stubmle, etc. other people's posts, post comments, do what real people do there.
After you published about 10-15 super viral posts on your site, go and post them on the social bookmarking sites. If you did the step above vote them up.
A StumbleUpon effect can get you about 10,000 visitors/day for about a week, then it starts to go down.
Make sure you don't vote with same accounts too many times the site or might get banned on the bookmarking sites.
What Kickflip suggested works too.
Then again, if you want to feel good, just jerk off, drink something, get high, sleep, whatever. Investing time into sites to feel better about yourself is not a good idea. That means you're weak. If you're weak, this game is not for you. If you want to have success online or offline for that matter, or in any area of your life, you have to be prepared to face big obstacles. If you're not prepared to go around them or jump over them or blast them into dust, then it makes no sense to try it. As master Yoda said "Do or do not. There is no try!"