Do you feel more stressed or less stressed when you bury your head in the sand?

I’m really pissed about something that happened recently (you might have seen my Q about a healthcare billing problem) and thinking about writing a bunch of letters to try and rectify the situation. I also have some stress in my family right now, and am disagreeing with some relatives on how to handle things, but for the last week have let them do whatever they want and stifled.

In some ways ignoring the chaos, and basically being run over by other people is much easier. It takes a piece of my soul in a way, but so fighting against the tide probably shortens my life.

What do you usually do in these situations? Just go along? Accept there are injustices? Push it all to the back of your mind? Or, do you fight and stand up for what you feel is right?