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There is so much wrong with what you're saying. 1. Understanding and processing is just not the same thing as ruminating. It's just not. Ruminating means you'r
by Loughla 3y ago
There is so much wrong with what you're saying.
1. Understanding and processing is just not the same thing as ruminating. It's just not. Ruminating means you're not trying to get better.
2. Blaming talk therapy for the anxiety and depression, and actual opioid epidemic is absolutely ridiculous. Are you seriously saying talk therapy is more to blame than things like a pandemic, predatory prescription practices in the 2010's, and the societal disconnect experienced by today's youth (among the hundreds of reasons I could've written)?
Astounding.
- iinnPP 3y agoRuminating is not "not trying to get better."
- Loughla 3y agoRuminating, the definition I'm using, is a colloquialism meaning to just bring the same thing up over and over again. There isn't a positive outcome in mind. It's just bringing it up over and over. Like how ruminates bring up and chew their cud. It is literally just reliving things for the sake of itself, not to try to intentionally work through anything.
- basil-rash 3y agoYou refer to the ruminates who intentionally bring up and chew their cud over and over precisely because the iterative process they're engaged in allows them to break down and digest the material over time? And indeed is the only possible way they can "work through" the material? The hubris to suppose those who ruminate are doing it simply to pass the time...
- Loughla 3y agoYes. Colloquialism. I'm learning that this might be regional that the phrase ruminate where I live means unproductive dwelling on something. I understand the process that the animals use. It's a thing that means only part of the thing (honestly, pretty close to the opposite of the things?). Again, Apparently that's regional and I'm just now learning that.