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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a ruminator and recently made two adjustments that have helped:

1) I discovered that I ruminate about things if I feel powerless over them.  This seems like the bullying episode at your job.  You are thinking or being told to just not do anything about it and to wait and see if it happens again.  I was doing the exact same sort of thing.  My change was to actually try to address it, however mildly.  For example, I spoke up about the circumstance upsetting me to the people doing the upsetting.  I acknowledge that speaking about it doesn't mean the other people will change, or provide me with the result that I desire, but it helped to just say something.  It helped to figure out that other people now had this additional information about me, and could make their own decisions accordingly.

2)  I just decided to recognize that I was ruminating and relaxed.  So I didn't beat myself up for ruminating; I just noticed what I was doing, labeled it, and just said ok.  My brain perhaps won't give me peace but I don't need to make things worse by being mad at my brain.[/quote]

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