How to stop ruminating for a better future?

We have a tendency to feel that chewing and re-chewing a painful event from the past will assist us in better digesting the experience. To put it another way, the exact opposite.

Due to the fact that mental rumination is not an efficient method for resolving our issues, let us find strategies to put a stop to the films that we keep playing over and over again in our thoughts.

We have a tendency to feel that chewing and re-chewing a painful event from the past will assist us in better digesting the experience. To put it another way, the exact opposite.

Due to the fact that mental rumination is not an efficient method for resolving our issues, let us find strategies to put a stop to the films that we keep playing over and over again in our thoughts.

It is not necessary to do a fast survey of the people in your immediate vicinity in order to get to the conclusion that everyone engages in mental rumination in some form or another... Ariane spends a few days in her brain revisiting all of the discussions she had with her friends after each time she goes out with them. She wonders if she lived up to the expectations she set for herself. Hugo, on the other hand, is unable to stop himself from doing so: for the past two years, he has been thinking about the things that he could have done to prevent her from being separated from him. Marilyne is unable to shake the feeling that the choices she made at work during the day are questionable when she goes to bed as a nighttime routine. As soon as Valérie experiences discomfort in any part of her body, she immediately begins to fantasise about a variety of catastrophic events that culminate in the development of cancer or an illness that cannot be cured.

"It is natural to dwell on things. There are circumstances in our lives that cause us to act in this manner. The mission of the mind is to find solutions to problems. "It seeks out ways to feel better," says Frédérick Dionne, a psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). This is a reassuring statement.

We chew over the events of the past in an effort to better digest them, just like a cow has a tendency to ruminate. Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), notes that although it is a strategy for emotion control that everyone can apply, there are some individuals who use it more frequently than others. Certain personality qualities, such as hypersensitivity and perfectionism, are also more likely to dwell on anxieties, regrets, and remorse. They are also more likely to be anxious. Her further explanation is that individuals who are hypervigilant have a greater number of potential sources of worry, questioning, and consequently rumination.

People who suffer from anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may also find themselves falling into the pattern of having thoughts that repeat themselves over and over again. According to Frédérick Dionne, "Rumination takes on a different hue depending on the mental health disorder and the individual." "Social anxiety, for instance, causes us to overanalyse previous social situations in order to assess whether or not we behaved appropriately. We will replay situations from our day that are connected to our preoccupation when we have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). On the other hand, when we have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we will question what we may have done differently to avoid the trauma.

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It is not necessary to do a fast survey of the people in your immediate vicinity in order to get to the conclusion that everyone engages in mental rumination in some form or another...

Ariane spends a few days in her brain revisiting all of the discussions she had with her friends after each time she goes out with them. She wonders if she lived up to the expectations she set for herself.

Hugo, on the other hand, is unable to stop himself from doing so: for the past two years, he has been thinking about the things that he could have done to prevent her from being separated from him. Marilyne is unable to shake the feeling that the choices she made at work during the day are questionable when she goes to bed as a nighttime routine.

As soon as Valérie experiences discomfort in any part of her body, she immediately begins to fantasise about a variety of catastrophic events that culminate in the development of cancer or an illness that cannot be cured.

"It is natural to dwell on things. There are circumstances in our lives that cause us to act in this manner. The mission of the mind is to find solutions to problems. "It seeks out ways to feel better," says Frédérick Dionne, a psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). This is a reassuring statement.

We chew over the events of the past in an effort to better digest them, just like a cow has a tendency to ruminate. Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), notes that although it is a strategy for emotion control that everyone can apply, there are some individuals who use it more frequently than others.

Certain personality qualities, such as hypersensitivity and perfectionism, are also more likely to dwell on anxieties, regrets, and remorse. They are also more likely to be anxious. Her further explanation is that individuals who are hypervigilant have a greater number of potential sources of worry, questioning, and consequently rumination.

People who suffer from anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may also find themselves falling into the pattern of having thoughts that repeat themselves over and over again.

According to Frédérick Dionne, "Rumination takes on a different hue depending on the mental health disorder and the individual."

"Social anxiety, for instance, causes us to overanalyse previous social situations in order to assess whether or not we behaved appropriately. We will replay situations from our day that are connected to our preoccupation when we have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

On the other hand, when we have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we will question what we may have done differently to avoid the trauma.

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