Are you stuck asking, “Why did this happen?” Here are eight steps to stop ruminating and get back to living life.

Reading stress-relief books in order of popularity doesn't really work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and ACT ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once you have depressive symptoms, it's easy to fall into a pattern where you aggravate the disorder by ruminative thinking. One of the key issues is what is called negative metacognitions, a phrase ...

Hello everyone. How are you feeling? I am Dr. Roy Norizuki!Welcome to 'Overwriting the Expiration Date of Life: Dr. Roy ...

Socrates was onto something when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." But the overly examined life isn’t so great, either. In fact, many people, particularly women, have a bad habit ...

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As a graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Illinois, Amanda Rose studied girls' and boys' friendships. It was already well-known through research – not to mention by anyone ...