Map of Monotropic Experiences

Mountains of Ruminating Thoughts

Stuck

Ridge, knot — drawn with shapes from the map builder, which you can use to draw your own.

In plain words

The same thought goes round and round. You cannot put it down. It gets in the way, and it can leave you tired, cross, or anxious.

When your thoughts are all swirly and you just keep chewing on the same thought over and over and you can’t stop thinking about it and it’s distracting you and sometimes even putting you in a really bad mood or making you irritable.

Dusty Chipura — in their own words

What changes this

Resolution, or permission to stop waiting for it. A great deal of rumination is an unanswered question held open by somebody else — a decision not made, a reply not sent, a rule nobody will state plainly.

Where it is on the map

Area 4 of twenty, printed on the map as Mountains of Ruminating Thoughts. It borders:

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