Anyone have issues with decision based overwhelm?
I've just noticed that a common cause of nonverbal shutdown for me is caused by an overwhelming abundance of choices with no clear answer. What do I want to do? Do I want to watch something? Do I want to play a game? What would I watch? What would I play?
... it's kinda hard to explain how out of hand it gets without a chart. You could think of it sort of like finding the root of numbers I suppose. 8 is 2x4 and that branches into 4x2. If you draw out the process with 8 at the top, it makes a sort of tree. 8 is the major decision, 2 is the end of the chain of decision making logic. Now make the number arbitrarily bigger, with lots of different branches. At every branch I have to make another choice and I don't get any hints and there is no right answer and I just feel really lost and confused. No fun :(
Posted Apr 29, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC