“Life decisions—making too many and/or making them too easily is as dangerous as not making them at all. How clearly mania and depression outline the extremes of the dilemma of us all before the terrible fact of choice: indecisiveness in depression—nothing can be done; overdecisiveness in mania—everything is to be done and nothing gets done. We are doomed to choose, Sartre said, yet we don’t know when to choose and when not to choose.” DepressionDecisionsChoiceExistentialPsychiatryManiaSartre Book:The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness Source: The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness