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These are quite good tips (maybe beside hitting the laptop :P I broke my squash racket over a wall when felt frustrated during training once - not worth it:p)

I really feel your pain about this point though:

Feel weird mixture of joy and humiliation, and continue working

But additionally I realized one thing - you should know who to ask about the problem and how you ask.

Most of people will go straight up to giving you proper solution if you ask for it (which can make you even more frustrated as you feel it was something obvious you should probably came up with)

But maybe after talking to rubber duck you will ask question correctly to someone be able to rephrase the question in such way a good techlead he will be able to point you out the way to figure it out on your own :)

I'm trying out to not ask exact question but put an abstraction over it and make it sound like some general problem.
Instead of asking "how to solve this specific case" try to ask what are different ways of solving similar problems in general.

Doing this you probably will just get some new perspectives on topic and it is much more probable you will feel you've finally came up with specific solution on your own (e.g. by choosing between solutions).