I can agree with Purple and also offer my own personal experience.
Meditation has made me more feeling of the unpleasant and painful aspects, and doesn't directly help get rid of them. I can ask though, I can imagine there are good days and bad days, times when it is especially painful and times when it seems less so. This is very important to watch, because it is seeing this that helps you let go of being so disturbed by these feelings. You sit with a very bad feeling, you watch it, feel it without doing anything, and you watch it dissipate on its own. You sit with a pleasant feeling, you watch it, feel it without getting to hopeful or excited, and you watch it also dissipate on its own.
This to me is one of the greatest benefits to meditation: it gives you time to watch and see how you as a human creature function, and shows you first hand that the worst feelings pass, and the best feelings pass as well, and there is no requirement to get caught up in them.
Meditation doesn't "do" anything, but it does give me the necessary time and space to see what it is I am doing and what it is that happens when certain thoughts arise, how I react to them, what chain of effects I am perpetuating through my actions. When I want something I may or may not get it and that affects me, makes me uncomfortable either by striving for happiness or running from discomfort. By watching the wanting, you get to see first hand that it goes away on its own, and all its noise and pressure is temporary. This is why I feel I can't "want" anything from meditation, and can't expect it to give me anything; but I do feel it helps me stop doing the things that cause me unnecessary suffering, by helping me face exactly what it is I am doing.
Good luck and I hope you find your peace.