How Do You Feel Better?

We often if you take a break, up. It's an intense, dramatic event in one's life. It produces this avalanche of pain that we're left just spinning and going, how am i going to deal with this? What can possibly do to make myself feel better? In any situation where there's a ton of pain, we can often find ourselves searching for the perfect solution. The brain is so ridiculously powerful. I mean, if the placibo effect proves nothing else how creepily scary and and powerful the brain is in being able to reorganize it based on what it thinks is happening yor rather than what has actually happened.