20.500.12556/RUL-184868 The lifeworld of people who ruminate a qualitative phenomenological study Background: Ruminations are persistent, repetitive, and often distressing thoughts centered on negative events, mood states, and psychiatric symptoms. Recognized as a maladaptive cognitive process, ruminating contributes to the onset and persistence of psychiatric disorders and is strongly linked to negative emotional states, self-criticism, and suicidality. Despite its clinical significance, a comprehensive, phenomenological understanding of ruminations remains lacking. Objectives: This study aims to provide a detailed, descriptive account of ruminations from the perspective of lifeworld analysis, focusing on embodiment, space, time, emotions, social relationships, and values. The goal is to enhance clinical understanding of the lived experience of ruminating and generate hypotheses for future research. Methods: A qualitative phenomenological approach was employed, combining micro-phenomenological interviews and lifeworld analysis. Data were collected from 51 participants, including both normative and clinical samples. A total of 107 interviews were conducted, focusing on 79 experiential episodes. Results: Ruminating is an epistemic practice, driven by a need to resolve uncertainty and create meaning. Ruminations are triggered by a collapse of commonsense understanding, leading to intellectualization of daily life and detachment from intuitive or embodied responses. Ruminative episodes are characterized by feelings of paralysis, emptiness, and problematic relationships with knowledge. Conclusion: Rather than being a maladaptive pattern of thinking, ruminating appears to constitute a complex lifeworld. This observation calls for reconceptualization of ruminations from a unified symptom towards a system of interrelated and extended altered experiences. depression lifeworld analysis micro-phenomenology phenomenological psychopathology qualitative phenomenology ruminating depresija analiza izkustvenega sveta mikrofenomenologija fenomenološka psihopatologija kvalitativna fenomenologija ruminacija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-07-16 10:01:01 2026-07-16 10:01:10 2026-08-11 07:26:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 18 str. art. 1649971 Vol. 17 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 616.89:615.2 1664-0640 10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1649971 284059651 RAZ_Oblak_Ales_2026.pdf RAZ_Oblak_Ales_2026.pdf 1 CA0BD6E216FE5E34DD83A7F73F06C5C3 30457cbece577776c1a4a2bb8b5a9fa28037438745f1981bb3cb5cb7a48642c9 c1daf6d4-80ef-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=240256 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1649971/full 1 52fae8a6-80ec-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=240241 Filozofska fakulteta Pedagoška fakulteta Medicinska fakulteta 0 0 0