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  1. Rumination Signs and How to Stop the Cycle - Verywell Mind

    Jul 15, 2025 · Rumination involves repetitive and passive thoughts focused on the causes and effects of a person's distress. The problem is that these negative thoughts don't lead to …

  2. Rumination (psychology) - Wikipedia

    Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms of one's mental distress. In 1991, Nolen-Hoeksema proposed the Response Styles Theory, [1][2][3] which is the most widely used …

  3. How to Stop Ruminating - Healthline

    Jun 6, 2024 · The process of continuously thinking about the same thoughts or worries is called rumination. Here, find out why it happens and how to stop it.

  4. What to Do When You Just Can't Let It Go - Psychology Today

    Mar 27, 2025 · What Is Rumination? Rumination is the process of continuously thinking about the same thoughts—often negative ones—over and over again.

  5. How to Stop Ruminating: 9 Tips | Psych Central

    Jun 26, 2024 · If you experience unwanted rumination, you’re not alone. Here are nine tips that can help you manage ruminating thoughts.

  6. When Rumination Shrinks Your View - Simply Psychology

    Sep 18, 2025 · Rumination Tightens the Lens After rumination, participants became more easily distracted by small details when asked to focus on the larger figure. In other words, their …

  7. Rumination: A Cycle of Negative Thinking - Psychiatry.org

    Mar 5, 2020 · Rumination involves repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress and their causes and consequences. The repetitive, negative aspect of rumination can …

  8. Break the cycle - Harvard Health

    Jan 1, 2024 · An endless repetition of a negative thought or theme that spirals downward, tanking your mood, rumination often involves replaying a past scenario or conversation in your head or …

  9. 15 Ways to Stop Rumination: Advice from an Expert

    Jun 26, 2024 · Rumination can cause a person to feel extreme distress, develop depression or anxiety, and worsen existing mental health disorders. At its core, rumination is a coping …

  10. Rumination: Thinking Patterns, Examples, Conditions

    Oct 14, 2025 · Rumination is a pattern of negative thoughts that can worsen mental health problems like depression and anxiety. To stop ruminating, try to distract yourself with an …