Do you have repetitive negative thoughts? If so, the diagnosis is confirmed: You’re human. The Laboratory of Neuro-Imaging reports that the average person experiences 70,000 thoughts per day. As a ...

Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape the negative emotions associated with a task (frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As ...

Everybody experiences repetitive, recurrent and negative thoughts from time to time. Sometimes, repetitively thinking about a problem might enable one to review what went wrong and to consider ...

Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) encompasses patterns of intrusive, perseverative thoughts such as worry and rumination that recur across diagnostic boundaries. Rather than being confined to a ...

Treatments that explicitly targeted repetitive negative thinking were much more effective than general therapy approaches. General therapy might address broad life stressors or mood issues. Specific ...

Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders. Think Eeyore and Piglet. Cheerful Piglet is a chronic worrier, coping with anxiety; ...

A new study links repetitive negative thinking (RNT) to poorer cognitive function in older Chinese adults, raising questions about how certain thought patterns may impact brain health. Researchers ...

Thoughts that arise spontaneously when humans are not deliberately trying to think of something are known to play a key role in decision-making and various cognitive functions, as well as in some ...

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 ...