Rumination disorder, also known as rumination syndrome, is a rare and chronic condition. It affects infants, children, and adults. People with this disorder regurgitate food after most meals.

Ruminating thoughts are excessive or repetitive thoughts about negative experiences. People can use various strategies to help stop rumination, such as distraction, mindfulness, and therapy. Many ...

The phrase “chew the cud” means to further chew partly digested food — but many of us use it to mean something rather more abstract. The scientific word for this is rumination: A process of breaking ...

Rumination is a type of obsessive thinking that’s common across many types of OCD. If excessive rumination is starting to add stress to your life, therapy can help you learn to break the cycle. Have ...

Colleen Stinchcombe is a health, environment, and outdoor recreation writer based near Seattle, WA. In addition to Health, her work has been published by SELF, Outside Online, Sierra Magazine, Lonely ...