Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.