Here are a few ways mental health professionals suggest you can take steps on your own to help break the cycle of rumination.1, 2, 4
Distract yourself with activities that will interrupt the negative thinking and focus on more positive memories.
Try to deliberately recall times when things worked out even with challenges. Enlist the help of family or friends in remembering past positive experiences, times when things turned out well. This can help shift your thinking down a different path.
Physical activity and change in environment, especially to a place that has positive associations for you, can help too.
Try to separate out different problems or break down larger problems into smaller parts. Tackle one issue at a time. Make a step-by-step plan, be as specific as possible. Write it down. Then begin to move forward, taking action one step at a time.
If you are troubled by repetitive negative thinking that is distressful and disruptive, contact a mental health professional. Help is available.
Oh Mike, how can you be so innocent. Biden was not a genius, but he learned to surround himself with experienced competence, unlike Trump who is using the White House as his production studio where he has bad actors run the affairs of the nation, with disastrous results at all levels.
Remember I said : “Give it 3 months”. And the results are beginning to show.