Sam Harris, in his recent article called The Fireplace Delusion, tries to make you feel what it's like to react to a cached belief being irreparably destroyed. Just incase you forgot what your apostasy (if you had one, of course) was like in its early stages.
What are some of the Fireplace Delusions you've come across in your days?
EDIT: WOODSMOKE HEALTH EFFECTS
My complete non-reaction to this (aside from being convinced utterly and without counterargument) suggests to me that I have "achieved" the "break with the world" that Eliezer sometimes goes on about as a required first step to becoming a rationalist. That's kind of a relief but not really.
A huge part of having emotional convulsions when dealing with having your beliefs broken, I suspect, is identifying with your beliefs, something that is suggested piecemeal, in bits and pieces, again and again and again and again.
Your comment here reminds me that I have much more work to do! My thought process usually takes several steps before I come to the right conclusion, like: