The Effects of Rumination on Past Hurts

When people ruminate about real life hurts, their heart rates escolate and blood pressure surges. There's an important measure of the regulation of the heart that plummets when people are ruminating. And all of us, in some ways, sort of have experienced what you're just describing. We might not have observed these markersas carefully, but all of us can remember times when we are,. lying in bed at night, you know, maybe one o'clock in the morning, two o' clock in the morning, and we remember something hurtful"