171 Learned Helplessness

 Learned helplessness, is a  term which means; a condition of which a person has learned to behave helplessly, even when the opportunity is restored to help themselves by avoiding an unpleasant or harmful circumstance to which it has been subjected. A perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.

Learned Helplessness is the basis of Why People Give Up... Why bother?

Helplessness is learned, therefore it can be unlearned.

Learned helplessness is when people through experience learn or come to believe that nothing they do really matters