If you are thinking about the problem for more than five minutes, there is a good chance that you are a ruminator. |
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I was a master of circling, a pacer, a ruminator, caught in my neural loops. |
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Thus, an ambivalently attached person and the ruminator may seek out help but focus on their emotional elements of their distress. |
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Thus the ruminator does not receive the type of support for which he or she is looking. |
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This leaves the ruminator or ambivalently attached person feeling unheard and increases his or her distress. |
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Ray is a control freak, a fussbudget, a tireless ruminator and annoyance-nurser, and most of his overflowing mental energy goes into an anxious gloating over his happy marriage. |
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More often, as he restlessly paced the backs of committee rooms or brought a tome to read during hearings, Eugene McCarthy was viewed by peers as something of a ruminator and a curmudgeon. |
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