i love making lists and i found a way to sortve work the intrusive thoughts into it whenever i have one that particularly upsetting mostly about my immediate life i write it down log it as a possibility like those booksgames where there are branching paths except it’s real eventually you’ll have a long list of things that can play out and most often they’re negative when the time rolls around that the event could happen but doesn’t check it off the list   what you’ll notice is that these things that you’ve cemented as a real possibility just become scratched out words on some random page over time you can recognize these intrusive thoughts as mere possibilities and not definite outcomes   unless we’re all psychic in which case we’re screwed kidding