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It's the way it's supposed to work. But it doesn't always. I get trapped in random negative thoughts all the time, lie to myself, confuse reality with my perception of it and get hung up on feelings of worthlessness and failure.

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The debugger you have, as you are here wondering about it. What you are lacking is the ability to fix the problem and hit F5.

That's a valid point. I think my approach to this does include fixing the problem and refreshing, at least for a certain category of inifinite mental loops.

Have you tried meditation?

For a few years. I found that it helps my general state of mind, but doesn't work very well in times of specific stress.

Understood. Wasn't trying to sound dismissive at all, and the conceptual idea seems cool, but I mean only a combination or rTMS and realtime brain scans could get you to this, without it just being some random CRUD app that makes me interact with the app more than actually reflect on my feelings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat... (to modify brain settings)

and something like https://openbci.com/ (to read brain data)

That's a valid point. I do think it's possible to build an app that gets you to reflect a lot more than interact. Ping me on Twitter @finereli, I'll show you what I've got so far.

sure, that's done

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