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  2. The Hazards of Rumination for Your Mental and Physical Health

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    The problem is, rumination ramps up activity in the brain's stress response circuitry, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which controls your fight-or-flight response, Ilardi notes.

  3. Rumination (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    State rumination, which involves dwelling on the consequences and feelings associated with the failure. State rumination is more common in people who are pessimistic, neurotic, and who have negative attributional styles. [30] Action rumination, which consists of task-oriented thought processes focused on goal-achievement and correction of mistakes.

  4. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    Common sexual themes for intrusive thoughts for men involve: Having sex in a public place; Having people come in contact with oneself in a state of nakedness; Engaging in a sexual act with someone who is unacceptable to oneself because they have authority over me. Common sexual intrusive thoughts for women are: Having sex in a public place

  5. 'I spent 30 years searching for the secret to happiness - the ...

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    And nights waking drenched in sweat, waking to obsessive rumination, bad dreams leaking into the dawn. Add in recovery from alcoholism at the end of the 90s, and I've done plenty of research into ...

  6. Perseverative cognition - Wikipedia

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    [2] [8] Worry, rumination and all other forms of thoughts , about stressful events that have happened or might happen, fall under the definition of perseverative cognition. 'Just thinking about your problems, without calling it worrying or rumination', is also perseverative cognition, as is mind wandering when it concerns negative topics.

  7. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

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    The healthier-looking the skin on the hands, the more attractive they appear. Reasons given for this say skin health may reflect an individual's overall health. Healthy skin can show that someone is free from illness because some illnesses have a bad effect on the look of skin.

  8. Absent-mindedness - Wikipedia

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    Absent-mindedness is a mental state wherein a person is forgetfully inattentive. [1] It is the opposite mental state of mindfulness.. Absent-mindedness is often caused by things such as boredom, sleepiness, rumination, distraction, or preoccupation with one's own internal monologue.

  9. Body odour and sexual attraction - Wikipedia

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    The olfactory epithelium plays a large role in why humans are attracted to persons biologically rather than physically; this relates directly to the sense of smell and not physical appearance. Olfactory communication is common in all animals and recent studies have shown that humans have this communication trait as well. This kind of ...