Difficult integral involving trigonometric and hypertrigonometric functions

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This is definitely the most difficult integral that I've ever seen. Of course, I'm not able to solve this. Could you help me?

$$\int { \sin { x\cos { x } \cosh { \left( \ln { \sqrt { \frac { 1 }{ 1-\sin { x } } } +\tanh ^{ -1 }{ \left( \sin x \right) +\tanh ^{ -1 }{ \left( \cos { x } \right) } } } \right) } } dx } $$

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Using the fact that $\cosh t = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\tanh^2 t}}$ and $\sinh t = \frac{\tanh t}{\sqrt{1-\tanh^2 t}} $ $$\cosh(a+b+c) = \cosh a \cosh b \cosh c + \sinh a \sinh b \cosh c + \sinh a \cosh b \sinh c + \cosh a \sinh b \sinh c$$ the integrand simplifies to $$\int dx \left[\cosh\left(\log\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\sin x}}\right)\right)\left(1+\sin x \cos x\right) + \sinh\left(\log\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\sin x}}\right)\right)\left(\sin x + \cos x \right) \right]$$ Next we'll substitute $x = 2z+\frac{\pi}{2}$: $$\int 2dz \left[\cosh\left(\log\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\cos 2z}}\right)\right)\left(1-\sin 2z \cos 2z\right) + \sinh\left(\log\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-\cos 2z}}\right)\right)\left(\cos 2z - \sin 2z \right) \right]$$ $$ = \frac{1}{\sqrt2}\int dz (2\sin z + \csc z )(1-\sin 2z \cos 2z)-(2\sin z - \csc z )(\cos 2z - \sin 2z)$$ $$ = \frac{1}{\sqrt2}\int dz\left[4\sin^2 z \cos z(1-\cos 2z) - 2\cos z(1+2\cos 2z)+2\sin z(1-\cos 2z)+ \csc z(1+\cos 2z) \right]$$ $$ =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \int(8\sin^4 z + 4 \sin^ z - 4)\cos z - (4\cos^2 z - 2)\sin z + 2 \csc z dz$$ $$= \sqrt{2}\left(\frac{4}{5}\sin^5 z + \frac{2}{3}\sin^3 z - 2 \sin z + \frac{2}{3}\cos^3 z - 2\cos z - \log|\csc z + \cot z|\right)$$ Therefore our final answer is $$\sqrt{2}\left(\frac{4}{5}\sin^5 \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) + \frac{2}{3}\sin^3 \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) - 2 \sin \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) + \frac{2}{3}\cos^3 \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) - 2\cos \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) - \log{\left|\csc \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right) + \cot \left(\frac{x}{2}-\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\right|}\right) + C$$

Edit: We can simplify this a bit further with some trig shenanigans. Applying the angle subtraction formulas, we get: $$\frac{1}{5}\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)^5 + \frac{1}{3}\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)^3 - 2 \left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right) + \frac{1}{3}\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)^3 - 2\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right) - \sqrt{2}\log{\left|\frac{\sqrt{2}+\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\sin\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}\right|} + C$$ $$=\frac{1}{5}\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)^5 + \frac{2}{3}\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\left(\sin^2 \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+3\cos^2\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right) - 4 \sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right) - \sqrt{2}\log{\left|\frac{\sqrt{2}+\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\sin\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\sin\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}\right|} + C$$ $$=\frac{1}{5}\left(\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)^5 + \frac{2}{3}\sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\cos x - \frac{8}{3} \sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right) - \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\log{\left(\frac{3+2\sqrt{2}(\cos\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\sin\left(\frac{x}{2}\right))+\sin x}{1-\sin x}\right)} + C$$ And I think I will stop there.

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Mathematica gives:

$$-\frac{\sqrt{\frac{1}{1-\sin (x)}} \sqrt{\sin ^2(2 x)} \csc^2(x) \\ \left(-90 \sin \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+35 \sin \left(\frac{3 x}{2}\right)-3 \sin \left(\frac{5 x}{2}\right)+15 \cos \left(\frac{3 x}{2}\right)+3 \cos \left(\frac{5 x}{2}\right)+30 \cos \left(\frac{x}{2}\right) \left(4 \sqrt{\frac{1}{\cos (x)+1}} \log \left(\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)-1\right)-4 \sqrt{\frac{1}{\cos (x)+1}} \log \left(2 \sqrt{\frac{1}{\cos (x)+1}}+\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+1\right)+1\right)\right)}{60 \left(\csc \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)+\sec \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)}$$

so I doubt you'll want to work through this by hand.