Four science-backed strategies to stop a vicious cycle of self-defeating thoughts - Inverse

Rumination typically refers to excessive, repetitive thinking about personal problems. It often results in emotional distress.

The phrase chew the cud means to further chew partly digested food but many of us use it to mean something rather more abstract. The scientific word for this is rumination: A process of breaking bi… [+7047 chars]

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