Don't let yourself fall into that pit, dear girl. You can't and you mustn't.
It's a bad patch, even a bad LONG patch, but remember something, it's NOT going to last forever. You will look back on this and go, "yeah, that sucked, but it's done and I'm here to talk about it ..." And that's sort of the point, isn't it? The I.V. line will enable you to be AROUND to look back on this many years from now.
Don't get obsessed with how much it sucks, sooner or later a bad patch WILL turn better, it always happens, I promise you. But the more negatively you let yourself think the worse things can get.