It's possible that the discipline of psychology has something to offer you and you've simply seen a few bad psychologists. (There are plenty of them.) If you r

It's possible that the discipline of psychology has something to offer you and you've simply seen a few bad psychologists. (There are plenty of them.) If you ruminate a lot I would look into cognitive behavioral therapy and its variants and think about how their principles can be incorporated into your ruminations. The TLDR of CBT is it involves analyzing your negative thoughts critically, rationally and systematically in writing. Often when we do that the thoughts lose their emotional hold on us, even if some of them are true. Avoiding may be better than ruminating, but processing is better than both. I spent way too much of my life thinking that ruminating was worthwhile on its own and eventually realized it is not unless you structure it narrowly and productively.