Such depressive rumination most often occurs in women as a reaction to sadness, according to research Nolen-Hoeksema conducted with Lisa Butler, PhD, of Stanford University. Men, by comparison, more often focus on their emotions when they're angry, rather than sad, she said.
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The work on depressive rumination does not show that rumination causes depression but it does show a relationship with severity and duration of depression in individuals who already have depressive symptoms. Rumination is not necessarily a bad thing.
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This study examined the hypothesis that rumination--an analytical type of self-focused attention--would be associated with higher levels of perception of negative facial emotions in major depression. ... Consistent with prediction, rumination was positively related to a negative bias in the judgment of facial expressions,
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The second experiment also demonstrated that, in contrast to depressive rumination, angry and intellectual rumination are associated with difficulties in switching to a new task set, but not with inhibition of a prior task set.
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A word comes to my mind for the obsessive thinking that my friend is doing: the word rumination. ... Thus, seemingly minor depressive episodes can lead physiologically to the establishment of more and more serious mood disorders. Kramer cautions: What is [too little] appreciated, especially in the case of mental health,
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Depressive rumination leads to a multitude of negative consequences such as the maintenance and exacerbation of negative mood and future episodes of depression.
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Reflections on Depressive Rumination. Papageiorgio, C. & Wells, A. (Eds.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons (www.wiley.com), 2003, pp. 296, $130.00 (hardcover). Depressive Rumination, edited by Costas Papageiorgio and Adrian Wells, constitutes a comprehensive review of the growing literature on rumination.
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This blog post, which discusses the correlation between depression and obsessive thinking (a correlation that is, of course, just as strong between obsessive thinking and panic and anxiety), opens with a wonderful description by Sylvia Plath of depressive rumination: "I am terrified by this dark thing/That sleeps in me;
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