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Podcast: The Richard Nicholls Mental Health Podcast
Episode: Rumination
Description: Send us a textOutside of psychology, "Rumination" is the word used for the way certain animals chew their food.Animals with multiple stomachs are able to move food from one stomach back up to their mouth to chew it some more before swallowing it back down again ready to chew it again a bit later.That's why we use it in psychology to mean to chew over your thoughts. Even if you swallow your thoughts down they keep coming back up for you to chew over again.That's rumination. Support the s...