There’s a scientific term for the feeling that nothing you do matters: learned helplessness. It is a state experienced by all humans (and most animals) in response to enduring negative stimuli. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with her Master’s degree in Social Work.

Learned helplessness occurs when a person who has experienced repeated challenges comes to believe they have no control over their situation. They then give up trying to make changes and accept their ...

Various types of schizophrenia are distinguished by certain symptoms that, while relating to affective, social, physical and intellectual functioning, indicate consequences of extreme emotional ...

In our earlier article, “Lessons From the Trenches on the Divorce Process,” we explored how fear can distort perception, ...

Have you ever felt powerless to the point that you pretty much give up and stop trying to change your circumstances? If you’ve ever convinced yourself that everything wrong with your life is doomed to ...

A few years ago some friends got a new Golden Retriever puppy named Sugar. When I first met Sugar, she was a ball of fur and energy. Picture this: a golden streak dashing across the yard, eyes ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We all fall into a slump every now and then. But, what if you can’t kick yourself out of that slump? When you fall into a similar emotion ...

In recent years, college faculty, staff and administrators have noticed a trend of more students who seem to need consistent guidance, support and feedback in their daily lives. Professors report that ...

Learned helplessness: I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...