Dear Joe:

My answer to  your question: no, it is  not  possible to destroy, or eliminate these “patterns of thought”- but it is possible to create new thoughts, new patterns of thoughts.

We can’t undo neuropathways that are already established in our brains. But we can create new neuropathways.

If you stop doing what you have done so far and do things differently, have new experiences that will benefit you, you will be adding neuropathways into your brain that will new thoughts+ new emotions attached to these thoughts. Quality psychotherapy can be that place for you where you can form a new kind of a relationship (with a capable, empathetic and trustworthy therapist) that will add the right kinds of neuropathways into your brain so that life is better for  you.

anita