Im Posting here looking for kindness and practical tips on dealing with rumination. I generally don’t have mental health problems. Any mood or anxiety fluctuations are generally hormonal/cycle and age related and very short lived. I am on HRT which actually does help most of the time.
My problem is that a few days before and the first few days during my period I start obsessing and ruminating over irrelevant things that have me convinced my partner has been having affairs . He hasn’t but my mind keeps looking for evidence and playing things over and over in my mind culminating in us having an uncomfortable talk about it. Now I know he hasn’t been having affairs deep down but my thoughts keep playing over and over. I know he loves me and our life together is for the most part happy.
It all goes away as soon as my period does so I know this is temporary and part of a pattern.
I just would like advice on how to stop the rumination at the beginning.
I don’t have any other obsessive behaviours. I don’t have OCD, depression or anxiety. It would make more sense if I did. The subject of my rumination is less important than the process my brain goes through. I just want to stop thinking these things. If I was single I’m sure I’d be obsessing over something else during those few days of my cycle. It’s awful.