Desiderant brooding is a cognitive process that, similarly to anxious brooding, depressive rumination and angry rumination, has the characteristics of being persevering, analytical and repetitive.
Generally, this process is activated starting from the perception of a desire. And thus, the descenting mobble can be configured as the response agitated by the subject in the face of the perception of a state that reports the lack of something.
Tendentially, desiring brood is configured as a process of reflection on our desires and on what we would like to achieve.
Similarly to what is found in other forms of mobble, also for the activation of the Desidement brood It is possible to identify specifications (destination) positive beliefs relating to the utility and advantage of getting into this process.
The pathological desiring mounted
Desidement can be configured as a form of Pathological broodin particular when it is implemented with reference to desires that we would not like to pursue or the adoption of behaviors that could be dysfunctional, if not harmful.
For example, it could concern imagining yourself as you are smoking a cigarette, during a period of abstinence in which you are trying to quit smoking.
In such cases, desiring mobble can outline itself as conscious cognitive strategy and implementing voluntarily. With the aim of identifying useful motivations in order to resist a certain temptation or a specific desire.
Also, the desirative brood could be implemented in order to reduce the levels of guilt perceived, if there is a specific temptation.
Thus, the desirative brood concerns fantasizing compared to certain situations or conditions and includes the elaboration of information relating to objects that we would like to obtain, or pleasant activities in which we would like to engage.
The mental anticipation of gratification
It can be configured as an attempt to anticipate gratification. Generally it includes sensory images and elements that would accompany the desired behavior.
Often it also includes the processing of data and concrete elements oriented to the planning necessary to be able to achieve the object of desire.
In addition, the process of the desiring brood anticipates the pleasant consequences of acting a specific behavior or obtaining the desired object. Therefore, compared to what is usually found in other forms of Pathological broodIn the desiring brood, the content of the process can concern the presence of scenarios, emotions and pleasant sensations.
The grove grove, generally, implies the presence of attentive bias oriented towards pursuing a certain desire. This process, in fact, orients thought, focuses attention on the object of desire and the concrete steps necessary to obtain it and satisfy the lack, maintaining and also feeding the motivation to pursue it.
The focus of attention
When the processing process desiring is activated, the focus of attention It can be oriented both internally (for example, on certain physical sensations) and externally (for example, it could concern the processing of information relating to the concrete external situation that could be useful for the purpose of achieving the desired purpose).
The attentive focus can be moved from inside outside and the person could thus be hired in reflections that concern both certain pleasant sensations and the next steps to take to achieve the object of desire, the possible obstacles and how to be able to face them.
Among the effects of desirative brooding there are often the distortion of our ability to evaluate certain situations and, thus, of our decision -making processes.
Generally, this process hinders the possibility of adequately evaluating the costs and benefits of the object in question or the adoption of the desired behavior.
In particular, the descenting brood inhibits the possibility of adequately evaluating the effects of the satisfaction of a certain desire by hindering the possibility of proposing it adequately within a wider hierarchy of personal purposes. This mechanism hinders the ability to choose to adopt functional conduct on the medium and long term, rather than gratifying immediately.
The brood as an internal debate
Desidement can assume the form of a discussion with oneself for which the person reflects and reasoning about the advantages and disadvantages of a certain situation or of giving in to a temptation.
This discussion can be configured as a real battle which maintains high levels of stress, reducing the resources available to exercise self -control. Generally, it promotes the adoption of impulsive choices, orienting behavior towards the adoption of dysfunctional behaviors, but perceived as more rewarding in the short term.
Thus, for all these mechanisms, the desiring brood creates a basic condition for which the ability to resist temptations is hindered.
In fact, it does not help to choose rationally and does not allow you to suppress desire, implying the reduction of self -regulation skills. And therefore of the sense of control, the increase in desire, the amplification of the unpleasant sensations linked to the states of deprivation and frustration of not being able to satisfy desire, the decrease in the ability to postpone deprivation.
Pathological brood and psychopathology
The Desidement brood It is a process that has been found to be associated with various forms of psychopathology.
In particular, it maintains and feeds the propensity to typical behaviors of pathological addictions, but also of the adoption of other dysfunctional conduct for the individual. These do not necessarily come to configure themselves as real forms of psychopathology.
In particular, the desiring mobble was found to be associated with Cving, a mechanism linked to dependence behavior and discontrocketing impulses. It was also found to be associated with consumer behavior and alcohol abuse, nicotine, drugs, problematic use of the internet, adultery, compulsive shopping, food binges, emotional dependence.
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