Suppressing bad thoughts is good for you

And horror movies can teach you how to do it

Try not to think about it!

“Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.”

There’s a fairly established wisdom in clinical psychology and the self-help world that suppressing thoughts is bad. Much of this stems from Freud, who proposed that suppressed thoughts would…