Confusion becomes manageable when converted into specific unknowns.

Confusion is heavy because it has no shape. Turned into a list of specific things you do not yet know, it becomes a set of tasks, and tasks are much easier to live with than a general sense of being lost. Nothing about the situation improves in that conversion, and your relationship to it changes completely.

When you feel lost about something, write the sentence beginning with what you do not know. Keep going until the list is complete. Then pick the item that is easiest to find out and find it out, which usually loosens the rest.