Rumination is partly due to anxiety and can anxiety can worsen rumination.
Rumination involves repeatedly thinking about negative thoughts, worries or even past events without finding a solution.
This can lead to a cycle of negative feelings and increased stress.
Rumination and worry are also closely linked in anxiety disorders, with rumination often focused on consequences of negative events.
The rumination can make the anxiety and stress worse by making it harder to move forward or focus on problem solving.
The four types of rumination are brooding, which is dwelling on negative feelings; reflection, which involves thoughtful problem-solving; intrusive rumination, which is unwanted and uncontrollable thoughts; and deliberate rumination, which is consciously focusing your mental attention on an event.
Brooding and intrusive rumination are associated with negative outcomes, while reflection and deliberate rumination can be more constructive.
Rumination syndrome is a type of functional gastrointestinal disorder and also eating disorder that causes you to experience habitual regurgitation and throwing up after eating food.
Within minutes of eating food, the food will automatically come back up from your stomach and into your mouth.
The causes of rumination syndrome are thought to be both psychological and physical which are said to trigger rumination syndrome.