Making decisions

I am rubbish at making decisions. I used to put it down to being a Libra, but I now realise it is due to a lack of confidence and autism playing it's part. When faced with making a decision or making changes, my head considers every little thing that could go wrong, and every person that could be affected. I don't seem to consider any positives unless they're pointed out to me. I am often too exhausted at the end of all the catastrophising to make the decision and have to do it another time. This includes booking trips away, making appointments, ordering something online, changing the garden, etc etc. I am fed up tying myself in knots! This has got worse since I got older, (although I was pretty bad when younger too) yet I am in a better living environment than I have ever been in, so maybe the uncertainty of the pandemic plays a part in this now. Does anyone else struggle like this? 

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  • Making decisions causes me lot of anxiety and panic. I spend forever overthinking it which then overwhelms me and leaves exhausted. Don't know what it is I just incapable of making a perfectly seemingly simple decision. It's like if the phone rings I spend so long trying to decide whether to answer it or not that it's stopped before I make the decision. I find that it overwhelms because I always get left with the what if I made the wrong decision and then I spend ages feeling bad for making the wrong decision. So stressful and tiring.

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  • Making decisions causes me lot of anxiety and panic. I spend forever overthinking it which then overwhelms me and leaves exhausted. Don't know what it is I just incapable of making a perfectly seemingly simple decision. It's like if the phone rings I spend so long trying to decide whether to answer it or not that it's stopped before I make the decision. I find that it overwhelms because I always get left with the what if I made the wrong decision and then I spend ages feeling bad for making the wrong decision. So stressful and tiring.

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