Do You Need "Thought-Detoxification?"

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Does anticipating and remembering cause you emotional suffering? Both are forms of thinking. Can some thoughts be toxic? Can those thoughts be healed; detoxified?
Do we have a 'Psychological Immune System?  (that's dormant in most people).

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Our nervous system (amygdala) reacts to perceptions and to 'believed' thought images. That's as certain as gravity. The content of both perceptions and believed thought images are not necessary  to be present to know the 'principle' holds. We know that anticipating some horrendous, possible event, will cause involuntary reaction; like anxiety,(if image believed).
Thinking about some past traumatic event, which is done via images, also causes involuntary emotional reaction. Images of anticipated events and images of remembered events are of the same quality. In fact, hypothetically; IF it were possible to see someone elses anticipated images and remembered images, we could not distinguish which is which unless they told us. We could not detect the sourse just by looking at the images. Neither can your involuntary distinguish your anticipated and remembered images. Our involuntary reacts to 'perceptions' in the present.
( We can deceive our involuntary by 'believing' some of our images are real). The images are the variable, reacting to them is constant.
We are beguiled/distracted by the content of believed thought images to the point of overlooking the fact that they are only images. We do the same thing when we go to the movies. We view the images, not focusing on the fact that they are only images,(proxy perceptions, even counterfeit perceptions). The emotions are real, whether evoked by movie or by our believed images.
Our involuntary reacts to believed thought images the same as it reacts to perceptions from/of environment, irrespective of the source or content.
Notice that by talking about traumatic/horrendous images in generic terms, we did not experience any emotions,( unless you 'slipped' and introduced one of your specific such images). 
We were neutral emotionally, there is a 'perspective' from where we 'can' view specific images without emotions.
-Reading this may not have "broken the spell" for you, (yet). But you know what's potentially possible; I hope you actualize your potential.-