SELF HELP - The Emotion of Helplessness

"Learned helplessness" is where someone has learned to act helpless even with offered help if the person feels he cannot take the outcome. It may be derived from having a feeling of worthlessness. Misunderstanding situations and passive aggressiveness may accompany a person of helplessness as their misguided beliefs say to them that there is nothing of their doing that can change a situation. Helplessness leads to hopelessness and may also effect their health, diet and mutual stability.

CURE: A person in helplessness will have a negative outlook on life and this must be turned into a positive "healthy" outlook on life. They must learn that they alone control their own outcome and existence. They must learn to see the positive in other people and in themselves. They must learn to stop making excuses and find solutions to the problem. They must think more about past positive experiences than the negative one. Ask yourself if you're making the reasons and then becoming helpless. Stop running from pain to get pleasure and work on ways to avoid pain.

"Helplessness induces hopelessness and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war." - B.H. Liddell Hart

"It is hardly possible to build anything if fustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail." - Lech Walesa

"Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." - John Maxwell

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to remake at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius

"If I look at the mass I will never act." - Mother Teresa