Finding a way to cope with how dramatically life has changed. I spent 48 years refining my existing coping mechanisms and in an instant, due to circumstances beyond my control, all of them no longer work.
My default response in this scenario has always been to run away from everything; however, in this situation, not even that would work. Everything is broken. The shards would simply come with me.
What no longer works here would equally fail to work anywhere else.
Off The Rails 