Yes, this sucks. It can be quite hard to see and understand, that these thoughts are your own activity, you are enabling these thoughts. You can't control if t

Yes, this sucks. It can be quite hard to see and understand, that these thoughts are your own activity, you are enabling these thoughts. You can't control if thoughts pop up, but you have control if you are following these thoughts, if you continue them. It might be very difficult to see the difference between the pop up of a thought and its following, because if you always follow a thought you get used to it, it just automatically happens. It can be quite hard to get rid of this habit, it takes time and energy, but the more you try to not automatically follow thoughts - but only if you really want to - the less thoughts will randomly pop up.