Extinguishing Repetitive Intrusive Thoughts

delayed thinking reengages your orbital frontal to healthy functioning and reengages the hippocampus. If you can put ever increasing durations between postponing the thought and then actually allowing yourself to think about it, over time, it strengthens back the orbital frontal. Another technique is writing it out long hand. Studies of Pentabaker have shown that when we write out repetitive intrusive thoughts, long hand, it can diminish those thoughts significantly because, for some reason, it tricks your brain into thinking you've taken agency.