Why Do I Keep Ruminating Over Past Traumas?
How PTSD affects Trauma Thinking
'ask dorothy'
The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 65
Why does the brain continue often spontaneously to ruminate and obsess over past traumatic events causing you to continue to relive these experiences?
How can you stop this or use these intrusive and undesired occurrences in a way that can be constructive to help you process and heal these difficult experiences?
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In this episode:
~ How trauma can lead to rumination.
~ Why are the repetitive actions of thinking and rethinking about the past and in particular negative experiences and events - unproductive?
~ My client's story and his awakening realization of years spent ruminating on past conflicts.
~ The distinction between intrusive symptoms of PTSD and trauma-focused rumination.
~ The neurobiological impact to the brain after trauma
~ Why trauma causes rumination?
~ What you can do to help yourself to break the cycle of rumination
~ How the subconscious mind plays a significant role in processing events and how you can help yourself to contemplate the past in a way that is constructive and healing.
References cited:
i. Science Direct - Rumination in posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review
ii. American Psychological Association - Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes
iii. Science Direct - Transdiagnostic assessment of repetitive negative thinking and responses to positive affect: Structure and predictive utility for depression, anxiety, and mania symptoms
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