Depressed People suffer from an inability to rid themselves of negative thoughts
Recent reports have emerged indicating that depressed people suffer from an inability to rid themselves of negative thoughts.
It is said that this due to the fact that they can’t turn their attention to other things.
The study’s co-author Jutta Joormann of the University of Miami in an Association for Psychological Science news release said: “They basically get stuck in a mindset where they relive what happened to them over and over again. Even though they think, ‘Oh, it’s not helpful, I should stop thinking about this, I should get on with my life,’ they can’t stop doing it.”
Very tellingly, it should be noted that the study authors gave tests designed to measure mental flexibility to 26 depressed people and 27 people who had never been depressed.
Delving further into this report, is noteworthy of mention that they looked at words on a screen for one second each and then were told to remember them in forward or backward order. Then they were asked to look at individual words and say where they were in the original order.
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It is said that the persons who were depressed had a harder time with the task, especially if the words had negative meanings like “death” or “sadness.”
To conclude, Joormann says: “The order of the words sort of gets stuck in their working memory, especially when the words are negative.”
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