Changing your perspective...
Enormously so...I like the analogy of saying my disease illness is called alcohol-ISM, the alcohol being but a symptom.
In recovery, having lead, in my drinking days the delusional life that, even as a 'high functioning alcoholic' I had to learn to live with the -ISM's i.e. life itself.
Stoic philosophy not only helped but dave me a way of life that strengthens and enhances it,enormously on a daily basis.
Ironis because I was first attracted to ir because of its, mentioned in at least three of my growing collection of books, I have on the subject with 'The Serenity Prayer'...and this frrom William Knaus, one of the pioneers of cognitive behaviour,'What happened to you may not be your fault, but it is your responsibility to think about it.'