The most frustrating decision anxiety I feel is when it comes to ordering food, either when ordering take-out or when ordering at a restaurant. On the one hand, take-out gives me all the time in the world to order because there aren’t any waiters waiting on me, but without that added “stress” I find myself taking so long to make a choice on the place or the meal I want to order, that sometimes it’s too frustrating or simply too much time has passed and I just give up ordering at all. It feels like I’d rather stay hungry than have to deal with making a decision that I’ll actually feel whole with. When I go sit at a restaurant, on the other hand, I feel the pressure of needing to make a decision and I can’t really run away from making it. But when I get handed the menu I start to feel panicked and overwhelmed and there's just so much to choose from that I just don’t know where to start from. There are many great options on the menu that I assume will be good to order, but my problem is in finding the “best choice” because I won’t really switch out an order for something else if I end up choosing something less good, and it’s money I am spending so I want to get my money’s worth. But this makes deciding super time consuming, like if it were up to me I could spend over an hour just going over the different choices and trying to narrow them down, but I know that isn’t practical. So what usually happens is this – I either tell everyone eating with me that we all have to order different meals from one another, so that I can share and have a bit of everything (not having to give up on any option and not having to actually decide) or, I end up calling my mom and reading her the menu items so that she can make the decision for me... I know this might seem like nonsense to someone else, but this is a tool that helps me move forward with these kinds of decisions because it just removes the stress and the fear of choosing a wrong option and preventing any regret afterwards.