You could consider any one of the following suggestions …

• your use of externalising language
• reclaiming one’s life from the effects of the problem, 
• escaping the effects of the problem, 
• revising one’s relationship with the problem, 
• educating the problem, 
• negotiating with the problem, 
• organising a truce with the problem, 
• taming the problem,
• undermining the problem.