I do actually have a "never" list, which is stuff that's so loaded emotionally it just lived permanently in my todo, and I resolved that if an item is there for like weeks, I can move it to another list.

The thing is I almost never look at it, so the point is really just to offload emotionally at the moment of deleting these tasks from the main todo.

Or maybe there's some psychological component I haven't learned yet for how to actually tackle one of these tasks.