CRT stands for "cathode ray tube."
Patchy, that sounds sensible, but how do you suggest discharging the high voltage components? There's still going to be a pathway, well, through your body, just not through your body and off to the ground.
Discharging a capacitor can be done by directly shorting out the two terminals with a wire, but that's not safe at all in situations where you have a capacitor storing large amounts of energy. It
will make sparks if you do this. Look up discharging capacitors on youtube. Safely discharging a capacitor requires a resistor.
Current will follow the path of least resistance, so I think you'd want to do all you could to increase your resistance or get as close as you can to an open circuit by using an insulator, until the capacitors are discharged. You'd ground yourself for voltage-sensitive components, but for high-voltage things, safety is the better way to go.
But I still think it's a terrible idea to mess around with it if you don't know what you're doing. I don't even know what I'm really doing. For some perspective, 0.1A is lethal.