Ruminating about being lonely, as opposed to being lonely, is linked to depression, found a new study. The findings were published in Nature Mental Health and have implications for treating depression ...

Source: no name, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Change can be difficult to deal with, and the bigger the change, the more difficult the struggle to adapt to that change can be. When we look back ...

Our minds often get trapped in repetitive thoughts, such as past mistakes, regrets, insecurities, or unresolved conflicts. This pattern of persistent negative thinking, called rumination, can have ...

OCD generates repetitive, all-consuming, irrational thoughts of anxiety and dread. Depression frequently involves repetitive, all-consuming, irrational thoughts of futility and hopelessness. In ...

Loneliness is more likely to cause depression if one keeps ruminating on how lonely they are. This is the essence of a study by The University of Hong Kong (HKU) that has therapeutic implications for ...

Michael J. Zvolensky, Daniel J. Paulus, Jafar Bakhshaie, Monica Garza, Melissa Ochoa-Perez, Chad Lemaire, Daniel Bogiaizian, Zuzuky Robles, Amelia Aldao, Anahi ...

As a graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Illinois, Amanda Rose studied girls’ and boys’ friendships. It was already well-known through research — not to mention by anyone ...

BOSTON - Teenagers are experiencing higher rates of depression than ever before, but a simple smartphone app could help treat a common symptom. 2020 was an especially tough year for 16-year-old Avary ...

We don’t think of emotional states as passing from one person to another, but a new study suggests some depressive thoughts can go viral. Researchers studying a group of college students found that ...