broke thru. therapy works. you know how when you don’t want to feed disruptive behavior you acknowledge it but don’t feed into it? you don’t wrangle the disruptive student, you don’t just deprive them of the negative attention, you apply positive attention. when a person is yelling at you while you walk on the street, the more you engage with them the louder they get. the same can go with my intrusive thoughts and doubt patterns. fixating on the prison won’t get you more free.