Chemistry can help. balance its cost vs the cost of the stress making you worse / slowing your healing, and it may be a bargain worth making... or not. We haven't got Fukitol(tm) but the natural pharmacopeia offers many options and human genius has expanded that beyond the bounds of absurdity.

we mammals are good at ignoring things, too. Ignore the things you can't do, enjoy the things you can all the more. Ignore the things you can't prevent and ignore the regrets of the things you couldn't do.