As a domestic worker, it can be easy to get caught up in the stresses of your job and personal life, but it’s important to prioritize your mental health.

Are you tired of constantly replaying negative thoughts in your head? It’s rumination, which means a cycle of negative thinking.

Rumination involves repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative feelings and distress and their causes and consequences. The repetitive, negative aspect of rumination can contribute to the development of depression or anxiety and can worsen existing conditions.

When a person who is in a depressed mood ruminates, they are more likely to remember more negative things that happened to them in the past, they interpret situations in their current lives more negatively, and they are more hopeless about the future.

This will lead the more a person ruminates, the worse they feel, which then contributes to more rumination.

Here are a few ways you can take steps on your own to help break the cycle of rumination.

1. Distract yourself with activities that will remind you of the negative thinking and focus on more positive memories.

2. Try to deliberately recall times when things worked out even with challenges. Enlist the help of family or friends in remembering past positive experiences, times when things 🪄turned out well. This can help shift your thinking down a different path.

3. Engage in physical activity and change in environment, especially to a place that has positive associations for you, can help too.

4. Try to separate out different problems or break down larger problems into smaller parts. Tackle one issue at a time. Make a step-by-step plan, be as specific as possible. Write it down. Then begin to move forward, taking action one step at a time.

It’s time to break free from the cycle of rumination and take control of your mental well-being.