Some answers arrive as strength instead of escape.

Sometimes what you get is not the exit but the capacity to stand in it. That can feel like a lesser answer, especially when you were asking to be taken out. But strength that develops inside a hard thing stays with you afterwards, and it goes on being useful in situations you have not met yet.

In a difficulty that will not lift, look at what you have become able to do since it began. Count that as something real. It may be the part of this you actually keep.