Dear Sam:
How do you stay sane for the next few months (May, June, part of July)?
Here is a suggestion: make a Word Document list of all the scenarios (or categories of those) that have been making you feel insane, 1, 2, 3 etc. Include who, what, where. Make the list complete. Look at it before getting to work every morning. Look at it during breaks.
When a scenarios unfolds, take out your list (hard copy) and find the one on your list: look at what you wrote and observe the scenario at work as it unfolds. If new developments happen, add them to the list (take notes). Mew scenario? Add it to the list.
This way you are as prepared as you can be and you are a student, no longer a participant or a victim, but a student.
anita