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How can I get over a YouTube video that traumatized me?

So an autistic friend with antisocial personality disorder who has trouble knowing what's appropriate and not appropriate and lacks awareness tried to prank me by pretending to send me an innocent video about cooking and then when I clicked the video it was something else... something illegal and very disturbing. So illegal and disturbing that the video got taken down like 2 days after being posted and the channel it was on got terminated.

And I won't even describe it because it was truly disturbing and awful. It did something to my brain. It's been two months since I watched it and to this day I just haven't been able to get over just how SHOCKING the video was.

I brought up the feelings to my friend who sent it and he seemed genuinely sorry and promised to never send such a disturbing video to me over again "or at least not something THIS level of disturbing" in his words.

But anyway I'm looking for tips. The video keeps re-entering my mind no matter how hard I try not to think about it. I've been having nightmares and even night terrors over it. I really don't know what to do.

How can I get over a YouTube video that traumatized me?
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