Distraction and Rumination

As I was doom-scrolling my news feed the other day, I stumbled across an article entitled, "A Surprising Reason Why Depressed People Don't Get Better." (Psychology Today, October 13, 2023, if you want to Google it.) The article discussed two techniques that can help people overcome depression and talked about several studies where they taught …

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Do you let yourself daydream?

Scientists at the University of Oslo studying the brain have a new theory that daydreaming is important to memory storage. They found that the hippocampus uses daydreaming to move memories from short-term to long-term storage, allowing us to hold onto memories – the same way that sleep-dreaming does. This happens throughout the day in fractions …

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