RE: OP: RE: "Intrusive Thoughts overtake me."

The brain is a tool. It is no different than your arm or leg. It does what you want it to do. An infant that learns to walk must learn to control its legs. It learns to crawl, walk and run. If it wants to maximize potential it teaches its legs to do ballet, martial arts, run marathons, dance or whatever. The Brain is no different than an arm or a leg. You leave it alone, you don't train it, and it atrophies. You don't teach it and it becomes feral and does what it wants. It tells you that it is in charge.

Here is a perspective that may give you a hand. For the next minute, don't think about pink elephants. Don't think about pink elephants in ballet suits dancing around a circus rink. Don't think about them standing on their hind legs and twirling for the audience. Don't think about pink elephants with their arms outstretched and trunks high in the air. Now.... what have you been thinking about?

Trying not to think about something and thinking about something is the exact same thing. Trying not to think about Pink Elephants IS thinking about pink elephants. You can not, not think about something.

The way you get your mind off a topic is to distract it. You get it to think about something else. This is why physical activity is so good for depression. If you are out running or exercising, your brain is distracted by the physical activity. Even playing darts, golf, or board games like checkers or chess can shift awareness from one topic to another. Hell, try masturbating and see if that does not get your mind off a frigging topic. Ultimately, the way to not think about one thing is to simply find something else to think about. Something that you are just as interested in. Instead of bullshit miracles. why not read about miracles that are known fantasy but carry with them important life lessons. Something like "The Monkey King." CHANGE YOUR MIND AND YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR WORLD.