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

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 ...

The tendency to replay conversations can also come from experiences rooted in early relational environments. This is ...

People often told Elona Washington, a publisher from the Nashville area, that she “acted like she had OCD.” She would panic if bobby pins in her hair faced different directions or would be so afraid ...

Self-awareness can help, but too much fuels rumination, anxiety, and emotional fatigue. Here is how hyper self-awareness drains joy, complicates relationships, and why learning to step out of your own ...

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 ...

Mental wellness Instagram brims with gentle reminders for scrollers to keep in their back pocket like “your anxiety is lying to you” and “you are not your depression.” The assertion that your anxiety ...

Dwelling on negative thoughts can lead to depression and anxiety, impacting daily life and health. Harvard Health and other ...

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 ...

When anxiety spikes, the nervous system can shift into fight-or-flight in seconds, but it can also be guided back toward ...