03/10/2021
Raise your hand if you have intense conversations in the shower with yourself... 🙋🏼♀️
Don’t worry these are normal but can get in the way of coping with your anxiety if they are the only conversations you are having!!
Rumination — is the repetition of the same thought, situation, choice or potential conversation in your head over and over and it impacts your normal daily functioning.
The difference between a healthy amount of thinking about a topic, versus harmful rumination, is the end result. If you find yourself thinking about a particular problem and are working on coming up with the best solution, you’re probably not ruminating. But if the thing on your mind that you keep thinking and talking about has no solution, or may not be in your control, or you don’t act on it (that shower conversation) then you might be ruminating.
The problem with rumination is that it doesn’t offer any new insight and these thoughts are usually based around uncertainty. Problem solving, coming up with action steps (if there are any) and mindfulness and the key ways to stop rumination.