Painted in an era when shipwrecks and whaling deaths were objects of public fear, this work could be read as a rumination on mortality.

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Just to top it all off, the cherry on top of the icing of the cake if you like, is this rather complex rumination.

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While Ms. Bakos and some others came to moral terms with their work as a result of soul searching, not everyone was always given to rumination.

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All the rumination and worry, and warnings from the bears about skidding corporate earnings and a supposedly imminent 5%-to-10% punishing market pullback, thus far, have been a non-event.

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Intuitively, the idea that depression could change activity in the DMN makes sense, since depression is linked to problems with concentration and attention, as well as with the tendency for rumination.

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Certain characteristics of his prose -- hypersensitivity and constant rumination, or persistent contemplation -- reflect a pattern of temperament that some psychology researchers say connects mental illness, especially bipolar disorder and depression, with creativity.

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Pulling you into rumination about your worst fears.

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Yale psychology professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, an expert on depression, has studied our penchant for self-punishing rumination when we face a problem -- a tendency that many of us have indulged during the past eight months.

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"If you think about stuff in your life and you start thinking about it again, and again, and again, and you kind of spiral away in this continuous rumination about what's happening to you and to the world -- people who do that are at risk for depression, " he said.

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