When I meet emotionally complicated challenges like doing things I'm supposed to do but can't I'm imagining a roleplay game for myself, like I'm a robot or an alien from another world who should hack, study and imitate human interactions with application of pure intellect.
When the world goes to the shit and comes a wish to give up I do the same, I imagine that I just bought a video game, cool and challenging and loaded in fist level, and everything happened before is just setup of the plot, everything happened before didn't happen with me but just a background story of my character. Yes, it can be dramatic but who wants to play a character with 100% happy origin? The best part of the plot is ahead and I'm going to squeeze the max achievements and see the great final of awesome story I'm only going to write.
Cheers, buddy. Life is a game, don't forget to have a fun ^•^