I found your post when I was going to log out. I cannot remember so much of stoicim from the time I was a student, but the way you explain it have some similarity with modern CBT. I think it is wise to leave Freud behind and find more practical ways to support us.

From "The Decider" (uk. a simpifyed CBT approach):

- "Somtimes we cannot see the light in the end, but it is there, and the only way to get through this tunnel and out on the other side, is to keep going."

- If I am here, then I am not there (past) or there (future)!

- "There is that DRIFT again (in thoughts)". "Pull it back to the here and now". "Do it". (...)

From another CBT reference:

- "The truth is I don't feel like it, but that doesn't have to get in my way. I can do things I dont want to do or feel like doing, simply by doing it"

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Inside the CBT approach one often uses Mindfulness to relax. Mindfulness is part of Buddhism.

I wish you luck with your methods! (Now I have to go and take care of my own needs with the little energy I have! )