Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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Good Life Project · When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And finding that when the default mode network gets stuck in this ruminative pattern, it is predictive of developing anxiety within the next year.

And it's predictive of cognitive decline.

This is the same area where we begin to see...

The greatest loss of synaptic connectivity, of robust connectivity in Alzheimer's.

So we really want to be talking about rumination and thought spiraling.

We really want to be talking about our sticky, icky thought loops that we can't escape and how we can get out of them.

It's important.

Anxiety is a little different.

I want to be clear about that.

So we all ruminate.

We all thought spiral.

We don't all have anxiety disorders.

That is a very different thing.

So an anxiety disorder may be the outcome of a chronic ruminative state, and it may be a signal that you do not have the mental flexibility yet to note and exit your ruminations and your thoughts spiraling.

That is a slightly different thing.

That said, ruminating makes people feel anxious, but that is not to say that it is a mental health disorder of generalized anxiety disorder.

It can become that, but it doesn't have to.

And we actually know that when people are working with generalized anxiety disorder and are doing cognitive behavioral therapy, there are types of CBT.

that are specifically for rumination to help people recover from anxiety.

So they're related, but they're not the same.

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