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

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping you solve it.

Have you ever been caught in a mind spiral? It could be a spiral of memories, angry rumination, anxiety, or regret. Often, we get caught up in spaces like this when we haven't been able to fully ...

Ruminating about being lonely, as opposed to being lonely, is linked to depression, found a new study. The findings were published in Nature Mental Health and have implications for treating depression ...

Replaying conversations is like a mental treadmill, where we keep running but never seem to reach a destination. Here’s how to break free. Replaying conversations involves dissecting every word and ...

It happened again: you got home late and started venting to your partner about your boss pulling you into a meeting just as you were about to leave. Then it’s your partner’s turn to complain about ...

No one expects their five year relationship to end with two blue ticks. When my ex-boyfriend slow-faded me last December, letting our relationship fizzle into oblivion with no goodbye, closure or ...

Loneliness is more likely to cause depression if one keeps ruminating on how lonely they are. This is the essence of a study ...