The habit of staying up at night and replaying all the embarrassing moments of your life while stewing in self-blame isn’t just a personality quirk. For some people, this recurring phenomenon, often beyond their control, can start feeling like a mental trap where they keep turning thoughts like “you should have known better” over and over again in their head. A 2022 study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology found that people most often ruminate or worry about past mistakes, negative experiences, and social interactions, with nighttime being a high-risk period for such overthinking.

If this sounds familiar, the reason you stay stuck in this cycle likely has to do with your mind’s tendency to disguise rumination as “problem-solving.” You might be under the impres

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