The Hazards of Rumination for Your Mental and Physical Health
How dwelling on your negative thoughts can take a toll on your mood and well-being.
By Stacey Colino, Contributor |March 14, 2018, at 10:50 a.m.
Overthinking drains your mental resources, which can interfere with your ability to solve problems. (Getty Images)
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 that's in their head but can have a detrimental effect on their physical and emotional well-being. It's called rumination, a tendency to chew on, brood about or obsess over a stressful situation or problem in a repetitive, cyclical way so that you end up feeling worse and worse about it.
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