Pretty sure I also unapologetically said being "obsessed" with solving technical problems such that you startle awake in the middle of the night thinking about them is, in fact, anxious rumination
@creachadair This but also, some things that feel good to us in the short term are bad for us in the long term, and people often think this doesn't apply to personal cognition but it can
@grimalkina@creachadair this exactly! It feels more like addiction than anxiety, complete with a kind of hangover of banging my head against a problem for too long.