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Does rumination really matter?Īs well as the mental health issues above, rumination means that you: Note that rumination not only can be a cause of depression, it can keep you depressed.

bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.

Rumination and mental health disorders and issuesĪs well as anxiety and depression, rumination can be a part of the following issues:

gives physical feelings of heaviness or things like headaches and general malaise.

leaves you exhausted and ‘ foggy brained’.

past-based: going over something you did or said in the past.

If your rumination is becoming depression, it can look like:

triggers physical symptoms like sweating, heart palpitations, muscle tension.

future-based – all the things that could happen or go wrong.

Rumination is a sign of anxiety when it is: It’s when we can’t seem to stop ruminating that it’s a red flag and can possibly lead to anxiety or depression. When we wake up in the night and start thinking about what we did wrong in a work presentation, we are ruminating. Stress, for example, can make many of us ruminate.

leads to anxiety or depression vs leads to decisions.

no end in sight vs ends when we find an action step forward.

negative thoughts vs a balance of thoughts including positive thinking.

looks for causes and consequences vs looks for solutions.

about things we can’t control vs about things we can solve.

focuses on what went wrong vs focuses on what went right as well as wrong.

Rumination is thinking for thinking’s sake. When we think of something often in order to find a solution, that’s problem solving.

more likely to be about threats vs rumination is about loss.īy: Ben Tesch Ruminating vs problem solvingīut aren’t we ruminating when we are going over a problem we want to solve?.

focuses on the future vs is more about the past and present.repetitive thinking about uncertainty vs repetitive thinking of negativity.Or obsessively thinking about something (germs are on this, how many germs do I pass each day…).Īn American study on undergraduates found that worry and rumination overlap when it comes to their connection to depression and anxiety, but that the two are indeed different.Becoming obsessed with thinking about someone (he said this, if I do that maybe she will, I wonder if they….).Dwelling on difficulties and things that seem insurmountable (all these things can go wrong, if I do this that will happen).Going over something from the past (if only I had of said that, not gone there, done this).Other psychologists see it as a possible trait (a way of thinking we are prone to genetically), as well as an attention issue, where we lack the ability to disengage our attention from our self-obsessed thoughts. The process of thinking about our feelings and problems, “repetitively and passively focusing on the distress, as well as its possible causes and consequences.”

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, an American professor of psychology at Yale University and established researcher of rumination, saw it as– Psychology sees rumination as connected to negative thinking. Rumination in a sentence, to go by the Cambridge English dictionary, is “the act of thinking carefully and for a long period about something”.īut the definition of rumination in psychology is more complex (and also the subject of a vast body of research, as it’s part of so many mental health concerns). Spend hours thinking about situations in great detail? Or about a certain person or thing? Rumination is an unhelpful thinking pattern we can get stuck in.