The reptilian, limbic and neocortex AKA primitive, emotional and thinking brains wrestle on another for control of our behaviour … Or so the ‘triune brain hypothesis’
Obsessing over trying to recover losses, being preoccupied with regret and cycling between fear and denial are far from ideal states. Of course you know cognitively
Being preoccupied with the past is painful and energy sapping. Minds can find endless variations of ‘what ifs?’ and ‘if onlys.’ Since preoccupation is a symptom