Why Can't I Shut Off My Mind?

Beth came to therapy because she could not stop her mind from worrying. She'd think about the same things over and over, get stuck in a thought with no solutions loop. She'd wake up obsessing about her future and blaming herself for past mistakes. Intellectually she knew she just had to do her best and take everything a day at a time. But she could not quiet her mind. Ruminating, as defined by Webster's Medical Dictionary, is "obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice especially when it interferes with normal mental functioning; specifically: a focusing of one's attention on...
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