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Can someone break down what is rumination and how to stop it pls?
Can someone break down what is rumination and how to stop it pls?
From my knowledge rumination is when you replay past events or thought constantly. The best way to stop it is too not interact with thoughts by simply letting them pass by without panicking about it or doing any compulsions. Its scary because your gonna think you don’t care about your thoughts and you’ll think your a bad person but its not true. Its a thought and the best thing to do is acknowledge and continue with your day
Where I'm confused is because I always remember the thoughts n I'm wondering if it's rumination to think about the situation for example i have a fear of going crazy and it always pops up in my head and I'm wondering if I'm purposely trying to remember n how do I stop
Here is a different prospective on ruminating. The human brain has limited capacity for storing memories. Periodically, it employs a process akin to a computer's "Garbage Collection," identifying old or irrelevant memories and presenting them for review to determine if they can be safely discarded. While non-OCD individuals can easily dismiss these memories, those with OCD become indecisive. As the brain urgently seeks to recycle these areas, it repeatedly presents these memories, causing discomfort akin to the pain experienced when something is wrong with our body. This cycle perpetuates itself.
😂can you summarize this in a more humanely way 😂pls
Are you saying the thought I'd going to come but I just need to let it be until it stops
Yes, those memories and thoughts are NOT being created by you. Your mind is simply clearing out old clutter for renewal. There's no need to dwell on or feel anything about those trivial matters—just allow them to pass, and understand that you're undergoing a process of mental cleansing.
-How To Stop Rumination Video: https://youtu.be/CkcspsmLh9k?feature=shared -What is Rumination? https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/the-rumination-trap
Here is an article that helped me with rumination: https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/how-to-stop-ruminating/
Hi everyone, I’m new here, and I wanted to share my experience. I’ve been struggling for over a year now on obsessing over a mistake. And the rumination of the mistake I made has been overwhelming and exhausting in those two years. I feel like such a horrible person. At the time, I didn’t realize what I was doing would affect me so much. When I realized it was wrong, I just said I’ll never do it again, and I moved on. But then months later, I was reminded of what I did, and I felt like I did the worst thing in the world, and that my life will never be normal again. And ever since then, it’s been a constant thought. And it’s exhausting. I have been able to open up to my family and a close friend about it and their reactions were so nonchalant compared to what my brain has been telling me. They say it wasn’t even that bad, and that I shouldn’t be beating myself up. I tell them how badly I feel and they just act like it was nothing. I thought that would help, but my brain continues to tell me how horrible of a person I am and I obsess over this one mistake I made two years ago. I’ve learned from it, I’ve moved on, I’ve opened up about it, I’ve gotten reassurance, but yet it still eats at me. It’s constant some days. Where all I wanna do is lay down in a corner and never leave. I feel like my life will never be normal again and I’ll never experience happiness again. Whenever I smile or feel any type of joy my brain tells me to stop and reminds me that I’m a bad person and I don’t deserve to be happy. Even though everyone tells me what I did wasn’t even that bad. And that it doesn’t make me who I am. But guess it’s not enough and I’m really running out of options.
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I feel like all I do is ruminate. 😞 I can’t imagine what it would be like to NOT do that.
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