Cerato
No. 5Doubting your own judgment and asking everyone else what they would do
6 remedies
Uncertainty
For when you cannot decide, cannot commit, or cannot see the point in trying again.
Uncertainty covers more ground than indecision. It includes the person who has made a decision but keeps asking everyone whether it was the right one, and the person who swings between two options all week and ends up doing neither.
It also covers the flatness that follows a setback. There is the kind where you know you have been knocked back and you are discouraged, and the deeper kind where you have quietly concluded that nothing will help, so there is no point trying. Those are two different remedies.
The Monday morning version belongs here too. Not tiredness exactly, more the feeling that the day ahead is too much before it has even started. And if the uncertainty is about the bigger picture, about what you are actually meant to be doing with your life, there is a remedy for that as well.
The 6 remedies in this group
Gentian
No. 12Discouragement after a specific setback
Gorse
No. 13Hopelessness, the belief that nothing will help so there is no point trying
Hornbeam
No. 17Tired at the thought of the day rather than after it, the Monday morning feeling
Scleranthus
No. 28Swinging between two options and never quite landing
Wild Oat
No. 36Capable and ambitious, but with no idea which direction to take
Which remedy for uncertainty?
Six remedies covering indecision, discouragement, and having no idea which direction to take. They are easier to tell apart than they look.
You keep asking other people what they would do
Cerato
You usually know the answer. You just do not trust it until somebody else has agreed with it.
Something specific has knocked you back
Gentian
Discouragement you can trace to an event: a rejection, a bad result, or a setback you did not see coming.
You have decided nothing will help
Gorse
Further along than discouragement. You will try something if pressed, without really expecting it to work.
The day is too much before it has started
Hornbeam
Monday morning tiredness, in the head rather than the body. It often lifts once you are actually doing the thing.
You swing between two options and never land
Scleranthus
The decision goes back and forth in your own head, sometimes several times an hour, and you end up doing neither.
You cannot see which direction to take at all
Wild Oat
Capable, ambitious, and with no idea what you are meant to be doing with any of it.