I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Art is science made clear.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.