Have you ever been caught in a mind spiral? It could be a spiral of memories, angry rumination, anxiety, or regret. Often, we get caught up in spaces like this when we haven't been able to fully ...

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping you solve it. Change can be deceptively complex and difficult to perceive ...

Rumination can haunt your bedtime and take you to even darker places. Here’s how you can avoid the midnight negative thought spirals. Picture this: You are trying to sleep peacefully at night. Your ...

Just before the holidays in 2025, Julie Hart felt stuck. A nagging problem she had struggled with for years left her ...

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 ...

Past studies have identified a loneliness-rumination-depression nexus. Rumination is defined as repetitive and intrusive negative thoughts and feelings, and loneliness as a gap between desired and ...

Below is the real, full chat transcript of an exchange between a Men's Health reader, "Theo" and ChatGPT. We showed this conversation to MH Advisor Dr. Gregory Scott Brown, a board-certified ...