Rumination is a type of obsessive thinking that’s common across many types of OCD. If excessive rumination is starting to add stress to your life, therapy can help you learn to break the cycle. Have ...

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with upsetting thoughts spinning through your head? Maybe you argued with your partner and you’re reliving the fight in agonizing detail. Perhaps you ...

Stuck in a mental loop of worries and problems that seem to have no end? Here’s what you can do. By Hannah Seo Perhaps you spend hours replaying a tense conversation you had with your boss over and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. You’ve probably heard of Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment. Dr. Pavlov ...

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 ...

Who do you turn to when you’re going through a challenge or difficult time? What do your conversations sound like? Do you know what you actually find helpful? And can you spot the difference between ...

It happened again: you got home late and started venting to your partner about your boss pulling you into a meeting just as you were about to leave. Then it’s your partner’s turn to complain about ...

Following a breakup, it is natural to do a postmortem on the relationship. Examining what worked and what didn't can even be healthy. But when your reflecting starts negatively affecting how you spend ...

No one expects their five year relationship to end with two blue ticks. When my ex-boyfriend slow-faded me last December, letting our relationship fizzle into oblivion with no goodbye, closure or ...