Are you experiencing "learned helplessness"?

What is Learned helplessness?

It is a psychological state that develops after a person has repeatedly encountered a stressful situation. They start to feel powerless to influence or alter the circumstance. A person having this experience loses motivation and is frequently less able to make decisions once they realise they have no influence over the events taking place around them.

Even when a chance to improve their situation presents itself, they choose not to take it. This state makes it harder for a person to deal with stressful situations and raises their chance of developing mental health issues like depression and anxiety, which have a direct impact on their capacity to function at work and in social and psychological settings.

Common Symptoms:

• Giving up easily
• Feeling frustrated
• Lack of persistence
• Having low self-esteem
• Lack of motivation
• Failing to ask for help, advices and support
• Feeling a lack of control on the situations or over the outcome of situations.

What people can do?

• Improve self-esteem
• Work through challenging emotions
• Set goals and tasks for themselves
• Identify the pin point that reinforce Learned helplessness
• Do not stop trying even if fails
• Talk to your friends, family and close once about it
• In the end, if nothing works out then go for the therapy

- Sagarkbharadwaj