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Patient has been staring at the DoorDash app for 22 minutes trying to decide between sushi, a chopped salad, or Shake Shack. Has opened each restaurant's menu four times. Has re-added the same items to the cart, removed them, and repeated. Will eventually close the app and eat crackers. Has done this 14 times this month.
Chronic. Every low-stakes decision becomes high-stakes.
None. Patient has considered letting someone else choose.
Patients with Advanced Decision Paralysis typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Decision Paralysis was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Stasis electiva totalis — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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