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Learned helplessness is a created experience to trigger our collapsed state. It is an effect the system constantly creates for the purpose of enslavement

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/learned-helplessness
Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so. For example, a smoker may repeatedly try and fail to quit. He may grow frustrated and come to believe that nothing he does will help, and therefore, he stops trying altogether. The perception that one cannot control the situation essentially elicits a passive response to the harm that is occurring.

Psychology Today

by Wei Wei

• 5 days, 20 hours ago

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