If things are shit, just try out whether or not it makes you feel weirdly happy to listen to some content in a language which you once studied when you were 16. Apparently, there are neurological reasons for this, it puts you almost into a different brain state to be trying to work in a different language. One hypothesis is that it introduces a helpful distance between you and the shit situation: “a foreign language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than a native tongue does”.