Rumination (psychology)
Fourth, you learn how to distract yourself from depressing thoughts. The mother learns that thinking these negative things now is not inevitable. Rumination, particularly when one is under pressure to perform well, makes the situation even worse.
Martin E.P. Seligman • Learned Optimism
Chronic worry doesn’t alert you to problems that need solving. It interferes with problem solving. If you experience chronic worry, your attention is focused on unlikely hypothetical future disasters, rather than current situations that require a solution. Chronic worries don’t get solved because there really isn’t anything to solve. The worry just
... See moreDavid Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
The third factor is rumination, our tendency to keep thinking about bad experiences.