Ruminating is when the same thoughts are going around and around in your mind. Common examples are mentally replaying a mistake or an angry conversation. If you're ruminating, you need to notice and ...

Rumination is one of the similarities between anxiety and depression. Ruminating is simply repetitively going over a thought or a problem without completion. When people are depressed, the themes of ...

“I can’t do this right,” says my patient Carla. “I know I’m going to fail. I can never do anything right.” The most innocent wish—to walk in the park, to meet a friend for lunch, to meditate— would ...

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Stress can modulate and predict the clinical characteristics of fibromyalgia. Rumination, which involves repetitive, intrusive, and uncontrollable focus on negative past events, can induce a stress ...