![]() To stop your brain from ruminating, you need to call it in from recess and get it focused and engaged on something else.Overfocused ADD is a type of ADD characterized by inflexible cognitive thinking, inability to appropriately shift one’s attention from task to task and can also include hyper-focused, argumentativeness, obsessiveness, and excessive worrying. ![]() It’s that distracting, wandering part, it’s super “shiny” and it’s always ON in an ADHD brain. They had to think through the things that went wrong, so they didn't go wrong again, and they had to plan for the things in the future that might still go wrong.ĪDHD brains are no different - they’re programmed to focus on past mistakes and future danger. But ADHD brain EXTRA prone to ruminating because they are constantly fighting a part of our brain that I like to call brain recess (or the Default Mode Network if you want to get technical). If you think back to when our primary goal as humans was to survive- run from the lions, tigers, and bears and keep from falling off cliffs. All brains ruminate- we are programmed to do it. Why do ADHD brains have so many ruminating thoughts?ĪDHD brains aren't the only ones prone to rumination. Whereas, overthinking can be a single episode of excessive or "stuck" thought on one problem, question, or decision. However, rumination is more often what we call a thought process that people return to repeatedly. There are no strict definitions of either term and people often use them interchangeably. ![]() What's the difference between Rumination and Overthinking? Anxious ruminations are usually about control- trying to keep our lives within our control. Things we are scared of happening, things that we want to somehow keep from happening, or fears that we are working to avoid. Or sometimes they get less specific- sounding more like a general self-recrimination- "I'm such a mess." "I'm so stupid." "No wonder no one likes me."Īnxious ruminations are usually about the future. They can reach far back into our history, repeating our greatest mistakes, regrets, or pains. Negative ruminations are usually about things that happened in the past that we don't like. ![]() Unlike cows, though, our ruminations tend to have 2 different types: Negative rumination and anxious rumination. Just to bring it back up again and chew on it some more. And as gross as that is- it’s what we do when we ruminate on a thought, too- isn't it? We have the thought we process it a bit, then we move on. The term rumination actually comes from cows.īut, when cows eat their food they chew it a bit, swallow, then bring it back up to chew some more. Sometimes it doesn't matter much what it is- but it's stuck, repeating the same thing over and over and over again. It can be that thing you wish you said yesterday at brunch, that guy you wish you never let go back in college, the thing you're terrified of happening this Friday, or just what you want to have for lunch. Sometimes an ADHD brain can sound like an old stuck record- repeating the same thought over and over but never really getting anywhere. How to Stop Rumination with an ADHD brain ![]()
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