Dementia and disorders like depression and anxiety have long been intertwined.Indeed, distinct screening tools have been ...

Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders. Think Eeyore and Piglet. Cheerful Piglet is a chronic worrier, coping with anxiety; ...

Procrastination is best understood as an emotion-focused coping strategy. We use task avoidance to escape the negative emotions associated with a task (e.g., frustration, boredom, stress, anxiety). As ...

Can negative thinking raise your risk of dementia and other psychological disorders? Here's how to catch the negative thinking pattern ...

When negative thinking persists for weeks or months and begins to disrupt your daily routine work productivity or social relationships it can eventually turn into a mental health disorder ...

A new study links repetitive negative thinking (RNT) to poorer cognitive function in older Chinese adults, raising questions about how certain thought patterns may impact brain health. Researchers ...

Loneliness can have profound psychological consequences. A recent study reveals that it's not so much loneliness itself, but how one reflects on it, that influences the risk of depression. Researchers ...

Thoughts that arise spontaneously when humans are not deliberately trying to think of something are known to play a key role in decision-making and various cognitive functions, as well as in some ...

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping you solve it. Change can be deceptively complex and difficult to perceive ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a loop of negative thinking, replaying past mistakes, dwelling on regrets, or obsessively worrying about the future in a doomsday way? Conversely, has your mind ...