Improving your ability to tolerate intrusive thoughts

 There is a cognitive-behavioral therapy called exposure and response prevention (ERP). 

Improving your ability to tolerate intrusive thoughts is an excellent way to reduce symptoms. Another way is to reevaluate the meaning you attribute to intrusive thoughts, images and impulses. exposure and response prevention (ERP). therapy helps you develop both of these skills.

RESPONSE led exposures. In these exercises, you purposefully “expose” yourself to something that will evoke a little bit of anxiety. 

Following that, you practice responding differently than you have been; You also refrain from ruminating about the possibility

 an awareness that is relaxed, focused on the present, and not caught up in distracting thought Importantly for those with intrusive thoughts, mindfulness helps us relate to our thoughts as they actually are: insubstantial and much less important than they feel in the moment.