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Stuck in a loop of worrying thoughts? Here’s how to stop it

Have you ever been stuck on a single thought, a string of thoughts, or a topic that you keep returning to in your mind over and over again? If you find that you tend to dwell excessively on certain experiences – especially negative ones – you may be engaging in rumination. Rumination is a tendency to repetitively fixate on the causes, meaning and consequences of one’s distress. It may reflect difficulties with disengaging from negative information, as opposed to a tendency to easily engage with it.