Sarah Harte: Every generation seems to have its Cuban missile crisis — Is this ours?

In a week that felt like we were being waterboarded with bad news every day, Sarah Harte turned to Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl for some coping strategies

Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl in New York in 1968. He wrote: 'The last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.' Picture: Imagno/Getty Images

Albert Camus wrote in his essay The Myth of Sisyphus: “To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy. Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.”

There are times when, even if you are an optimistic person who automatically looks for the bright side, that impulse fails.