Posted by Chris O on April 11, 2013, at 5:41:35
In reply to Anyone else have ruminations???, posted by Roslynn on March 31, 2013, at 13:01:57
Roslynn:
I feel like my ruminations are totally caused by my anxiety-ridden brain biology. I don't know if this relates to you at all, but on the rare occasion that my anxiety and depression dissipate, so do my ruminations. I know that in the brief year where SSRIs worked for me, my negative ruminations decreased significantly. I too constantly blame and attack myself in my head. And I never seem to be able to cognitively shift myself away from this, no matter how hard I "try." It's so fr*gg*ng annoying. If I had to guess, for me, it has to do with a combination of my family's (mostly my mother's) crappy brain biology, and the way my mother blamed and attacked me for ... nothing at all, for just being me. I suspect that my brain was deeply shaped by these interactions at a very young age, and I don't think it has ever recovered. Oh, the joy.
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