Motivation is psychosociochemical... or even psychosocioelectrochemicoinformatic. Wish we had a better term for this.* Maybe electrochemicoinformatic covers the psychosocial, just in more detail, and losing some perspective.

When you have a mental health condition, this stuff suddenly becomes a LOT more relevant to your life.

But it's relevant to everyone.

Your decisions are not just magical instants. Much goes into them behind the scenes of your own awareness.

What you experience is like what the audience sees - or maybe the actors see, when they're on stage. The actual decision process includes the writing, the living behind it, the rehearsing, the costume design, the lighting, the construction of stage and hanging of curtains, the finding and placement and brandishing of props, and so on. All that extra stuff you aren't aware of helps to make - essentially does make - your decisions. You are aware of the surface, the way you are aware of the steering wheel and gas pedal while driving - whereas the engine is drastically more complicated, and most people wouldn't even know where to start when building one like it.

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* PSECI? Psysoelchemin? Sylchemin? Pselmin? (I don't feel like any of those would catch on... PSECI is clearest so far as an abbreviation. It also has the problem that the hierarchy of scales is obscured... except... psychosocial is high-level, electrochemical is mid-level, and informatic is low-level. But I think if you ignore any of these components, you're missing something critical. Motivation as we experience it crosses scales and media.) I guess PSECI prounced "sekky" would do.