8 Signs You’re the World’s Rarest Personality Type (Psychology of INFJ) | Brené Brown

Maladaptive rumination is a thought pattern that was once useful for survival but now works against you, characterized by excessive scanning, anticipating, and analyzing that keeps you awake at night; this pattern often originates from childhood environments where unpredictability made constant vigilance a survival strategy, and it can be managed through cognitive diffusion (reframing thoughts as just thoughts rather than truths) and grounding techniques (engaging senses to interrupt the default mode network's mental chatter).