Three Metaphors and Exercises to Deal With Rumination and Anguish

  Rumination and intense feelings of distress feed off each other. In addition, rumination acts as a negative reinforcer. Sometimes, it makes you avoid experiencing feelings that you classify as negative due to the social value you grant to them. In fact, with your rumination and anguish, you believe that you’re neutralizing them. However, not familiarizing yourself with them and avoiding them at all costs is detrimental to your mental health. The worse the strategies are that you use against the discomfort that different internal events generate, the more you tend to withdraw from other vital events that could prove…