Mulling

What is it? 

Mulling consists of thoughts that keep going through your head without leading to a solution, often even to more brooding thoughts. You experience little grip on the thoughts that keep coming at the most inconvenient times when you would like to be busy doing something else like studying or sleeping. Mulling makes you anxious, fearful, stressed and vulnerable. In fact, it is about fear of losing control of a situation, fear of the unknown. Fretting is also living in a time that has been, a time of 'if only I had.....', 'if this hadn't happened then....' or a time yet to come 'suppose this happens .....', 'what if ...?'. So you don't live in the here-and-now. 

What can you do yourself?  

You can help yourself by asking questions to put the brooding thoughts into perspective. You can think of questions like:

You can see that the questions are aimed at making your thoughts manageable into categories. On the one hand, things you might be able to do something about yourself and might need some help with, and on the other, things you have no control over. With the last category, it makes sense to still ask yourself what you can do to deal with it differently.

Self-learning module

With your Fontys account, you can make free use of online self-help modules (e-health). Check out the modules related to mulling below.

Worrying 

Almost everyone worries from time to time. If your worrying thoughts are getting out of hand, it is important to take action. In this module, you will take a closer look at your worrying thoughts. The information and exercises will teach you how to master your worrying behaviour and turn your negative thoughts around. 

Go to the self-learning module