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Terminology | decidophobia

The irrational and paralyzing fear that emerges when making decisions

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Just like any other phobia, this is a real disorder affecting people’s well being. What characterizes this as a phobia is the “disproportionate intensity” experienced in relation to actual danger, where the threat itself originates from the fear of making the wrong decision. This intensifies simple indecision into phobia.

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A person suffering from this may experience full-scale panic attacks that resemble symptoms found in other anxiety-related disorders (i.e. muscle tension, lack of sleep, lack of hunger, hyperventilation, rapid heartbeats, nausea), and typically causes a person to avoid or abandon making decisions, so as to prevent experiencing these symptoms. The best treatment for such cases is to seek and invest in professional guidance, such as cognitive therapy or self-help treatments.

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The belief that more choice, and so more freedom, is a good thing is actually incorrect —

Choice is a real struggle when there's so much of it. The more options to choose from simply leaves us feeling overwhelmed, while having direct consequences on our mental wellbeing. This can lead to an increase in anxiety and depression, in decreased satisfaction, and regret over the choices we have already made. This issue is most commonly known as choice overload or “The Burden of Choice.”

The Project:

This project was born from personal experience, of wanting to learn more about my own decision anxiety and the reasons for why I suffer from it. Off the start, while researching the subject, I began to realize just how many other people are influenced by this same anxiety, yet feel alone in it, unaware of the existence of 'choice overload.' More so than that, while educating myself on the subject I began to feel disorientated - all the information available was scattered among different platforms, hidden in tiresome textual formats that would cause the average person to abandon the effort of learning altogether. “The Burden of Choice” was designed as a solution to these problems, creating a visual platform to expose users to the issue— providing a place to experience and learn more about it, while giving the issue the proper acknowledgment and recognition that it deserves.