I have a bad mental habit of ruminating on the past. I have done this since I've been old enough to have a past and it just seems to be where my mind goes when it has a free moment! I kind of hate it I know it isn't helpful, it takes up headspace that would be better spent on other, more present things. I think I do it to try and make sense of the past, why I failed or was rejected, sometimes to relive parts of my life where I had little agency or to wonder what it would have been like if I had taken a different path. Often I think of old boyfriends which is frustrating because I don't actually want to get back with any of them and know each break up was for the best and that I am in a good relationship now.
It really is just a bad mental habit but I don't know how to break it, sometimes it can be quite pleasant initially to daydream but it usually ends up with me ruminating in a pretty unhealthy way.
Has anyone else got this bad habit and more to the point does anyone have any tips on how to stop doing it!