Quick Hit: Co-Rumination and the Adolescent Girl

The New York Times has an interesting story today about new studies that allegedly confirm that teen girls co-ruminate (i.e. talk a topic into the ground) to the extent that it contributes to anxiety and depression. By going over and over and over an event or feeling, they keep themselves locked in a negative thinking pattern.
Mmm….brought me back to the old junior high days of a cruel little slumber party tradition in Colorado Springs, Colorado called “truth talk.” You don’t want to know…
Your thoughts? Do adolescent girls make themselves sick with over-analysis or are they just communicating and processing–something that adolescent boys could benefit from doing a bit more of?