... Well, that's how people are. Like I said at the start of this game... how you feel is probably "normal".

[It never really gets easier in the moment. He knows this well as someone who, unfortunately, has been through this song and dance more times than he'd like.]

Go through this enough times and either you learn that you can't handle it, and so you give up, or you learn how to suck it up and deal with it.

[Again, even if in a different context, he's already made his decision.]