Not all rumination is destructive. Mentally rehearsing scenarios where you have agency might be helping you prepare. Your ...

Rumination is a type of obsessive thinking that’s common across many types of OCD. If excessive rumination is starting to add stress to your life, therapy can help you learn to break the cycle. Have ...

One way to overcome rumination or obsessive thought patterns is to clarify the difference between rumination and reflection. ...

Thinking too much without pause drains your mind. Psychology calls this mental fatigue, driven by rumination. Your brain was ...

Rumination can haunt your bedtime and take you to even darker places. Here’s how you can avoid the midnight negative thought spirals. Picture this: You are trying to sleep peacefully at night. Your ...

Are there times when you just can’t seem to push an unpleasant thought out of your head no matter how hard you try? Perhaps you thought you said something friendly to a person you didn't know very ...

A new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine, University of Utah and University of Exeter (UK) substantiates previous groundbreaking research that ...

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping you solve it. Change can be deceptively complex and difficult to perceive ...