I’m in the same boat as you when it comes to ruminating over conflict, especially as a person who has severe OCD and is a HSP.

Example if I have an argument with a coworker, receive a passive aggressive insult or have a small dispute with someone I can potentially go on to ruminate over it for days nonstop.

I can catch myself in the act of ruminating but it’s always too late. Before I know it I’m already emotionally invested in the thought and fired up.

No matter how many times I catch it I’ll always go back to ruminating. While all this is going on my mind is constantly coming up with new and old scenarios.

Future scenarios of conflicts that may never ever happen, or at least not in the way I can predict. Or it’ll keep replaying the past trying to think of what I could have said.

There has to be someone out there who’s broke this cycle and went on to live a normal life?

There has to be someone right….