Here's s technique I've found helpful for intrusive thoughts. It's like stack overflowing your imagination with a vivid internal ritual, which overwrites all th

Here's s technique I've found helpful for intrusive thoughts. It's like stack overflowing your imagination with a vivid internal ritual, which overwrites all the frames containing unpleasant thoughts. I imagine writing the details of the unpleasant thought or image down in vim. This converts the thought to "something I am observing" vs "something i and xperiencing." Then the ritual plays out, where inmagine the same sequence of events: saving the file in vim to disk. Copying the file to a USB memory stic. Putting that stick into a ziploc back. Putting that bag into a specific pocket in my backpack. Getting my backpack and getting on my bike. Biking from my old apartment (where I lived when I developed this technique) and bike down 101 to moffet Air Force base, where I throw the backpack into a conveyor chute to a rock, which launches the backpack into space. Sometimes I had to repeat the ritual a few times, but afterward, the image or thought recedes in intensity.