Lie to oneself until they believe it, I suppose. [ Something that humans have been doing since the dawn of time, in all honesty.

She marks the indicated step with her pen. Hell is already a weird place, so, she's just going to assume the weirdest and worst. ]

On a slightly different tone, if we fall through a step here and get sent through some weird Hell portal, that's something else I'm already going to expect here, but I'm going to have a lot of questions.