Question

After he asked rachel to be his girlfriend and she declined his request, trey spent the next several days recounting the rejection in his mind. he thought about different ways he might have asked, reasons why she might have said no, and felt sure that everyone would be talking about him behind his back. each time he thought of these unpleasant things he got a little more upset. trey is engaging in a practice called ________.

Answer 1

I believe the correct term to fill in the blank would be rumination. Trey is engaging in a practice of rumination. It is a deep or focused thinking of one that has undergone distress. It is analogous with depression and anxiety. When one is ruminating, he keeps thinking of a certain thought repetitively without thinking of any solutions to that problem.