Perhaps worrying is a way for you to hedge your bets?. Some people think that worrying makes you better prepared to handle difficult situations, but does it really? And how do you know what you should worry about? In short, worry is incompatible with relaxing and restitution, so if we are going to invest our time and energy in worrying, it should be worth the effort. Worry has its costs: you can become anxious and stressed, you may find it difficult to concentrate, and you may find it difficult to relax. “What if I get attacked?”, “What if it’s cancer?”. Worry is defined as a chain of upsetting thoughts that are primarily verbal, have a “what-if” format, and whose purpose is to find solutions to anticipated future threatening situations. One goal of these thoughts is to try to find answers and meaning in things that have happened in the past, and in current symptoms/thoughts/feelings. Rumination is often triggered by “why thoughts”. Rumination is usually characterized by self-focused attention, meaning that we focus inward on our own negative thinking, rather than out on the external world. 
The subjects that cause us to ruminate are usually negative, oriented towards the past, and focused on negative emotions. Rumination and worry are thoughts that are repetitive and/or recurrent in nature, and can be understood both as a risk factor for and as a symptom of mental illness.
But the way that we choose to deal with what has been, what is now, and what may happen in the future is absolutely crucial to living a good life. What’s done is done, what has happened has happened. Some people make a good living, while others struggle to make ends meet.Īnother reality is that we cannot change the past. Life is uncertain, which makes it impossible on our part to predict what the future will bring. What thoughts do you spend time thinking about, and what are the recurring topics? Thoughts are not important, but how you relate to your thoughts is very important!
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