Comments on: Rumination Alters Brain’s Response to Social Rejection

By: Mike A

Mike A — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:37:35 +0000

This is pretty much assumed.However in trying to make science out of this you miss a few necessary facts. in order for rumination to have any effect, there has to be underlying self- worth beliefs and meaning connected to whatever it is they are ruminating about. The true garbage is the stuff people in relationships with them put into their minds. if they believe they are unwanted or worthless, that’s where the rumination will go. and inside that locked world there is nothing in there to challenge the meaning they make. Rumination is a process and a behavior the information and individual meaning of the messages lies outside of the rumination process.

By: Observer

Observer — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:35:24 +0000

Wonder why adolescent guys were excluded. Don’t they experience social rejections that impact their self-image, too? I’d be interested in knowing, or knowing why they focused exclusively on girls. It seems beneficial to have a mix of sexes to know what is mainly a female response vs. what’s simply human response to rejection.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:39:16 +0000

why was this restricted to only girls? surely boys experience rejection similarly? as a male I can attest I have always had a high tendency to ruminate, and it has taken me decades to overcome the direct effects social rejection had on my sense of identity and self. it’s incredibly biased to limit this sort of study to one gender and then start reporting how it affects girls with an implied tone that guys are unaffected.

By: Karen M Kenner

Karen M Kenner — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:12:36 +0000

Great article.
This is me. Would have been very helpful decades ago. I can still benefit from the suggestions at this time

By: Gayle R. Gower

Gayle R. Gower — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:14:13 +0000

It would be interesting to look at possible precursors to the adolescent girls’ tendency towards rumination, particularly whether abnormally frequent negative childhood feedback prior to the study age existed. If this were the case, 1) earlier intervention would be suggested, and 2) intervention for external factors (familial or childhood trauma, e.g.) rather than just the subjects’ mental/biological responses might also be useful. Would the MRI’s findings also show in younger adolescents. What about boys? If not, earlier external intervention might prevent these unusual brain responses.

By: Pat Canaday

Pat Canaday — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:25:20 +0000

I would very much like to know when you are adult and this has been an ongoing pattern for many many decades…can you learn to become more positive?

By: Lorna Strankman

Lorna Strankman — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:45:12 +0000

Very interested in this field of research

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:12:05 +0000

It makes perfect sense that the longer young girls focus on and rehash negative social interactions the more it will start to reprogram their brains. It would be amazing to understand better how the brain is internally affected exactly or structurally by this type of interaction.

By: Maureen Ganley

Maureen Ganley — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:58:40 +0000

Hmm very interesting article. What happens to these young ladies is important, simply because it then becomes a personality trait, becomes part of who they are. They then pass that behavior on to their own daughters. A cycle that deserves our attention.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:18:50 +0000

So what is the answer? How does one stop the rumination please?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:56:30 +0000

I figured this was common sense? Why are they funding things like this that we already know? People with anxiety have this problem with ruminating about negative things like times they were embarrassed and things they heard people say and so on. It’s like being haunted by everything bad that you experienced when you were younger. It plays on repeat and comes out of nowhere. That’s where the CBT comes in. It doesnt always work but what else can you do? Im speaking from experience here. They shouldn’t have had to spend money and time on this.