What is Aboulomania
- Aboulomania is a mental disorder in which the patient displays pathological indecisiveness.
- Aboulomania is typically associated with anxiety, stress, depression, and mental anguish, and can severely affect one's ability to function socially.
- Although many people suffer from indecision, it is rarely to the extent of obsession.
- The part of the brain that is tied to making rational choices, the prefrontal cortex, can hold several pieces of information at any given time.
- This may quickly overwhelm somebody when trying to make decisions, regardless of the importance of that decision.
- They come up with reasons that their decisions will turn out badly, causing them to over-analyze every situation critically in a classic case of paralysis by analysis.
- Lack of information, valuation difficulty, and outcome uncertainty can become an obsession.