I think there's a lot of learned helplessness about discovering, indicting and convicting criminals who give or receive bribes, and I think we need to unlearn this helplessness extremely fast and incredibly hard
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The collection of discussions consistently underscores how learned helplessness shapes attitudes from mental health struggles, like depression and anxiety, to political passivity and social complacency, exemplified in references to experiments, political narratives, and cultural behaviors. The tone varies from critique—such as labeling governmental inaction as learned helplessness—to motivational calls for resistance, illustrating its pervasive influence and potential for change.
Most comments acknowledge the relevance and significance of learned helplessness, recognizing it as a real and influential psychological and societal phenomenon.
Discussions demonstrate high curiosity, with many exploring various contexts like politics, mental health, education, and social issues, indicating strong engagement.
Many posts analyze, critique, and reflect deeply on learned helplessness, sharing examples, personal experiences, experiments, and implications, showing profound engagement.
The discussions highlight that learned helplessness influences individual behavior, political discourse, societal trust, and institutional accountability, thus having a substantial societal impact.
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- Learned helplessness is a psychological condition where individuals believe they have no control over their situation, leading to feelings of powerlessness and repeated failure.
- It often develops after a person experiences repeated negative events or failures that they cannot change, making them less likely to try to improve their circumstances.
- This concept is used to explain various mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, and highlights the importance of empowerment and control in overcoming challenges.
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Most liked on X and Blueskyi was talking about it with a friend earlier trying to clarify my thoughts because i often say learned helplessness is a disease which i feel like is a core part of my politics in that to me the human condition is action, growth, and change, so stagnation is self-dehumanization, which is very bad!
Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
I don't think we can fully explain America's constitution crises without deep diving into the learned helplessness of liberal elites in the Democratic Party. Reagan's death is now old enough to buy a beer
Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ideia de Educação para o trabalho. Fica tb a recomendação do @naruhodopodcast ep 284 sobre os efeitos do desemprego! https://t.co/BH7m1EvUo0 https://t.co/h8Z2SJK5lh
I have a concept that's like Bojack but about a former Disney Channel sitcom star whose agent used to keep him in a dog crate
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@fool_posting @ChivalryGuild That still doesnt mean you should doom or blackpill. God would want you to make the most on what you had. There is always work to be done no matter the time. Learned helplessness is a fruitless endeavor that justifies self destruction through inaction.
@SeekingSolar @MKatorin Learned helplessness coupled with the unwillingness to take responsibility. It's always been that way, why do anything? Also, the inability to consider the future, instead of just living in the now. Look... another TikTok of a woman shaking her ass. https://t.co/iRbTNYN5gj
there’s a big trend of learned helplessness online that’s continuously validated in fandom spaces and it really bothers me bc it’s not actually Kind to enable that…
Learned helplessness. These old farts always buy Breyer’s because Breyer’s is the brand to buy. Breyer’s figured out that they can put garbage in the tub and rubes will still buy it because their name is on the label. If you want ice cream, stop buying Breyer’s and buy ice cream. https://t.co/p6jqm3UeQD
Considered bang learned helplessness yung kahit magaral ka or hindi for CIP2 babagsak ka? Asking for a friend.
@mrymrdnm So much of success in life is just about overcoming learned helplessness
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@Glitchnfa Learned helplessness
Depression is often learned helplessness. Take action in some small ways to gain ground. It doesn’t need to solve your issues. Daily, on-going actions of control will lift you out of despair. Remind yourself that you have power through your actions, all things are not in your
I saw this in a YT video today about the lives of maesters in the Westeros setting and damn it looked familiar
RT @ThomasJ92191816: Word-Repeating: Proves they own your private moments Creates plausible deniability Induces learned helplessness an…
Word-Repeating: Proves they own your private moments Creates plausible deniability Induces learned helplessness and psychotic-like doubt in the victim Gives them an erotic/sadistic charge (many literally masturbate to the recordings)
@ianmiles @EvaVlaar It is called “learned helplessness”. By not responding to such terror the human brain begins to accept anything. Then, it’s easy to take over or repeat. https://t.co/sSJSpD6X3k
@EvaVlaar This is called “learned helplessness”. It’s a tactic to make your brain accept violence against your community. It’s how radical Islamic terrorism works. https://t.co/sSJSpD6X3k
Ben Shapiro is talking sense. The right is cultivating a learned helplessness. "This notion that you, as a Gen Z male, are facing these obstacles that no other human has faced for all of human history, like, read a book .. go talk to your grandfather." https://t.co/hSk0AKHecN
STOP this learned helplessness attitude is the biggest reason we’ve struggled to achieve things in recent years.
@SaulStaniforth It creates a culture of dependency on the state. A culture of learned helplessness. Kevin is wrong. It’s a sad day for children. It’s a sad day for working people trying to do the right thing.
So it's a sort of learned helplessness from an ignorance of dynamics and control from physicians who should know better. Maybe not a big deal for this pandemic, but the next one's going to be GNARLY.
@SeibtNaomi These kinds of videos make my blood boil. They make you feel so impotent. I wonder if there’s something to that, like a weird sort of learned helplessness.
althought the military plot was stupid asf the indoraptor could had an intresting plot about animal being abused. it could have shown learned helplessness having a shock collar and being commanded or else it'll get hurt. maybe having it's behivour more reversed but nope.
@FatScribe @seanmdav True conservatives need to stop with the learned helplessness and move on from the GOP! It’s time for a new political party that actually represents and codifies our agenda!
RT @Rainmaker1973: Fun fact. The Learned Helplessness Experiment was a part of most High Schools in the 1980s. It is no longer taught on a…
i keep getting "learned helplessness in school" and yep. too many people in my classes fall under that
RT @tranoflamancha: 0- Stop basing your sense of self on your pain so you'll stop reacting to practical advice as if it were an attack on y…
@LiteBluCollar @ZyMazza This is literally the perfect essay for this situation https://t.co/yQH4ibrcLv
@JucheRespecter I like how they have successfully victimized themselves & created such a sense of learned helplessness that ANYBODY, who EVER rebels against the state must in their minds be a leftist. Lol. What is the 2nd amendment for again in their minds?
It's called self-efficacy and it's extremely important to self esteem and confidence. You need to believe you can do things or you fall into a kind of learned helplessness where you've never proven to yourself you can do stuff so you just sit around and feel bad and hate yourself.
@Thejimpenman I don't think so. It's a convergence of several reasons, but the main one is linked to the epidemic of anxiety and depression. People feel "not yet ready" for children, because they are in a state of mild learned helplessness.
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RT @kepovsthegods: We like to bask in self-pity and helplessness as a people. I wonder if it's as a result of generations of learned helpl…
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@holzenkrieger The parent is installing the 'Self-Service Protocol' OS.
Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. This is the real truth of many of these families
Being a boss *is* learned helplessness. You're not supposed to do things, you're supposed to facilitate everyone else doing things. Resisting the temptation to just do things yourself takes practice for most people.
Yeah so i am a socially isolated loner groomed to have bpd because isnt bpd like an environmental illness kind of similar to schizophrenia like third culture and then nature and nurture and learned helplessness from being raised and living in fear sure
RT @BuddyIterate: @ItsAmahAdoma Depression is often learned helplessness. Take action in some small ways to gain ground. It doesn’t need to…
@militiamafia91 @SolBrah Given in humans, serotonin is the hormone associated with the learned helplessness phenomenon, I think they should be banned nationwide regardless of what people who take them say lmao
@Strictlyirene learned helplessness & perpetual victimhood.
Being a boss is learned helplessness and imagine if you had a secretary that put all your emails in bullet points automatically! Like it suuuuks but of course C suite folks are gonna love it
“Psychologists call it “learned helplessness” when a person believes, as I did during my youth, that the choices I made had no effect on the outcomes in my life.” J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Do you know someone who has experienced this? https://t.co/e8XRqTdBaW
@foxlad66276188 @spicyybiscuit At the very least some sort of learned helplessness from a young age
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RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
Learned helplessness can lead to generalized anxiety disorders.
Learned helplessness can lead to anxiety disorders.
@Keir_Starmer The quotes in that image are a painfully accurate transcript of how modern bureaucracy gaslights us into learned helplessness. We spend more energy admiring the complexity of the problem than it would take to just press the switch and fix it.
Honestly the reason why Luffy keeps getting back up despite it all is probably because his thickheaded ass hasnt learned helplessness yet. And I hope to god that stupid, stupid boy never does bless his barely beating heart. #onepiece #monkeydluffy
@JeevunSandher "Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. They deepen. The ten-year-old who is already parenting her siblings while Mum sleeps off the night before....." https://t.co/5SfT77KMEv
@MatthewStadlen "Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. They deepen. The ten-year-old who is already parenting her siblings while Mum sleeps off the night before..." https://t.co/5SfT77KeOX
@michaeljknowles Our slavers want us to embody learned helplessness
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
RT @crystarius: @ffffauxpas What really gets me is every time someone reposts this, someone inevitably comes in looking to validate their l…
@wesstreeting Learned Helplessness is what Labour do. Teaching people that they need not work , just breed for Benefits. So shameful
RT @davzhao: The problem with Canadian tech ecosystem isn't lack of resources It's the cultural learned helplessness that comes from belie…
I'm not Catholic and I'm not that into woowoo, but "something that cannot appreciate beauty has no role in shaping minds" is a profound argument that should be seized upon and used alongside deskilling and learned helplessness for why GenAI has no place in a classroom.
The problem with Canadian tech ecosystem isn't lack of resources It's the cultural learned helplessness that comes from believing SOMEONE ELSE should solve all the problems "Someone other than me should really fix community capital/resources" No one is coming to save you.
@ItsAmahAdoma Depression is often learned helplessness. Take action in some small ways to gain ground. It doesn’t need to solve your issues. Daily, on-going actions of control will lift you out of despair. Remind yourself that you have power through your actions, all things are not in your
It’s creating ‘learned helplessness’ syndrome in the population. A tactic used by ‘commie’ governments to control the masses. Imagine the power these families would feel and the pride that would trickle down the generations if they realised they weren’t reliant on handouts. https://t.co/oqPGdMpSg6
@AndrewZywiecMD Learned helplessness says it all; the new dumbed-down American pastime. RLTW!
@lavika This! The deeply learned helplessness of the colonized. “What can I possibly do?” When resilience is mentioned as an option many become instantly overwhelmed.
RT @RedPencilScript: 5/4/19 email from Epstein to Bannon Just before he would be arrested for the last time. “Burdens of wealth. Inner vs.…
@bigpicturepol @richyphillips Correcting the dangerous imbalance of private to public debt, correcting chronic under investment in infrastructure and services and unlearning the learned helplessness that says these are unsolvable problems.
@stacycay learned helplessness is an endemic problem in modern trans communities and I'm not sure it was always this much of a problem, or if the transphobia of past ages was a massive filter where the people more inclined to learned helplessness didn't even try
@FENDIHOOSKIE this weird trend of people trying to justify using AI while victimizing themselves is so embarrassing they could just admit that they’re not driven to learn and enjoy relying on a crutch
I have learned helplessness
@HerbertHulk @Steve_Laws_ It's insidious but clever. Either the locals don't fight back and slide further into learned helplessness, or they fight back and volunteer for a stomping down.
Back to the learned helplessness then, because why play Pathfinder 2e and have fun with it when you can contort yourself into 'winning' arguments on the subreddit?
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@brainrotpill Eating ice cream and a good friend helped him escape pessimism and make the best of his abilities… learned helplessness be damned
'Learned helplessness' is the exact phrase I use to describe it. It's legitimately people who can't function without either extreme of freeform rules improvisation, or the RAW allowing them to be so powerful that sheer mechanical engagement past rote loops becomes superfluous to the experience.
@thedanielaros Learned helplessness is a real thing
I also make sure that reading broadens conversations and makes time with others more enjoyable and understandable. It’s time to persuade them to stop attakins that makes a victim feel learned helplessness making people are prone to do nothing and ill mindset unless you don't stop
@IamHashBury THIS! Learned helplessness.
I think I’ve developed learned helplessness in far too many areas of my life to be considered healthy. or I’m on the precipice…?? I don’t give up easy at ALL… BUT I am getting very very tired of swimming upstream. I. Want. To. Rest.
What we young men haven't realised is that learned helplessness won't help us. We must kickass like never before and work hard, too. https://t.co/pt81Al6RlD
This is more related to that whole reddit thread but I think the comments here are so indicative of the sheer levels of learned helplessness among people complaining about Pathfinder 2e over there. Like, I get that even in a balanced encounter (especially at low levels) there can be feelsbad moments
solve this with the mythic system and some homebrewed mythic callings and paths. But that dovetails into the learned helplessness and people not knowing/being honest aboutwhat they want issues that pervade RPG spaces.
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
@skaiaanon tavros is intended to be sort of a pushover/attention seeker to a flaw. thats not to say he wasnt abused, its only to say that he uses learned helplessness to cope and doesn't ever take accountability. he has flaws like every other character, some people don't like them. simple:)
Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. ✍️ Rosie Lewis
men should do a lot of things That they choose to “fail” to do- their bullshit learned helplessness and feigned ignorance are ploys. organized religion needs to be ejected from office. it’s one huge reason women can’t get their shit together as a collective
@Billsam390 @audreybbonbon @AyoCaesar “Irrespective of circumstance” So even when they don’t need it, which means no parent will ever have any incentive to get into the habit of feeding their kids breakfast regularly. Ergo learned helplessness.
@Pr0bP0stL1b @audreybbonbon @AyoCaesar Nothing to do with learned helplessness and everything to do with feeding hungry kids irrespective of circumstance Jeez
@Billsam390 @audreybbonbon @AyoCaesar This is applied to all parents not just the irresponsible ones - there’s nothing
@Samzinos In turn, this becomes the template for which "learned helplessness" and docility is built upon. Next the religions tell you to worry about yourself alone. "As long as me and my family is fine" "it happend to them because they do not believe in xyz" Combine with the previous
RT @TheEdmvnd_: No he is not. It isn’t a foregone conclusion. Acting like it is, is problematic. It’s learned helplessness.
'This story undermines the whole "black hole" fiscal space “learned helplessness” that will be central to the coming UK budget. It is a smokescreen to reduce public spending and usher in another round of austerity.' Malcolm Reavell of Modern Money Scotland, via The National archive.is/7Hu4m
@THEROSSHARKNESS This is classic learned helplessness. When people realize you’ll step in every time, their brain rewires: Why strain? Someone else will do it.
RT @Rhenderson23: @NutlawPete @ConceptualJames @MattLon13470215 Victim and powerless narratives are the foundation of learned helplessness.…
Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. ✍️ Rosie Lewis https://t.co/Q4T0UppE44
Addiction, chaos, and learned helplessness don’t vanish because the monthly bank transfer gets a little fatter. ✍️ Rosie Lewis https://t.co/ouVcXpfO1q
@Welcom2Cindylnd Also please don’t enable bad behaviour, learned behaviour,learned helplessness. I’ve enabled my son for too long thinking I was helping him , I was but I wasn’t. Don’t be to hard on yourself if things go bad. It’s not you that made those choices!.
Women who have amazing fathers still find themselves in abusive relationships. You’re referencing the onset of said relationship. A good father is able to guide his daughter away from men like that. But he isn’t able to control learned helplessness and manipulation in adulthood https://t.co/rclrCnrDuW
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RT @TheEdmvnd_: No he is not. It isn’t a foregone conclusion. Acting like it is, is problematic. It’s learned helplessness.
@MahmoudMassri15 “No one is checking on us”. I’m sorry, why is it someone else’s problem to take care of you? Move to higher ground…. Build a better shelter, don’t just sit there with your learned helplessness and complain about it. Fucking Christ I’ve had enough of these people.
RT @BusuyiOrisWorks: ...after 16 years is simply ignorant. Many of you genuinely don’t “rate” your ancestors at all. The real work before…
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
"I need the state to protect my work" "I need the bank to hold my money" "I need the platform to verify my speech" Learned helplessness dressed as common sense. They can't even conceive of alternatives anymore. Freedom feels like danger.
RT @crystarius: @ffffauxpas What really gets me is every time someone reposts this, someone inevitably comes in looking to validate their l…
@anitadickdown @Asmongold You and your family are the poster children for “learned helplessness”. Your nasty sister’s behavior finally caught up with her and she can’t be your cash cow anymore. Get a damn job, my god.
Amplifies → Disinformation, Narrative Management, Social Division, Polarization Erodes → Declining Trust & Democratic Participation Delivers → Low Voter Turnout & Learned Helplessness Reinforces → Concentrated Wealth (loop closes)
RT @Wagner_Nephro: "[B]oth the gadodiamide and gadobutrol groups exhibited an increased number of escape failures, higher incidence of lear…
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
Learned Helplessness 习得性无助,放大了无助的张力,让太多的人在忍受痛苦的同时,不敢越雷池一步,在无数次追求希望失败之后,逐渐绝望……
AI take. Useful for predictable work. Bad for anything messy or new. His fear is learned helplessness. Young devs skipping fundamentals and becoming dependent on autocomplete.
RT @exedexes1: @webdevMason because the 3+ kids is where a brave couple pushed past the huge learned-helplessness barrier instead of a bunc…
@webdevMason because the 3+ kids is where a brave couple pushed past the huge learned-helplessness barrier instead of a bunch of averagish people also-doing-it like mid 20th century was
Highlight a crime Rally support for justice for said crime Do nothing about the crime Rinse and repeat Over and over and over and over and over and over and over, again Demoralization and weaponized apathy propaganda!!! Learned helplessness All playing game will pay!
RT @Babygravy9: The converse of this is learned helplessness, which is basically the default state for modern man today. You’re made to fee…
RT @aintapuppy: hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving my…
hey yall, i don’t enjoy asking because i know yall got your own needs and shit to attend to. and i don’t wanna be giving myself a sense of learned helplessness. However. my day job, due to an automated scheduling error, has neglected to schedule me for 2 weeks, in a time where
Digital ones also don’t stop when the kid is overwhelmed or doesn’t know any more answers. Tests on things kids don’t know yet teach kids learned helplessness.
@h3adempty_ @lasagnamaxxer I mean, your parents should have taught you how to boil water a long time ago thats not your fault. But it's deeply concerning how many parents out there went 18 years not asking their kids to watch the pot for 2 seconds. This is looking a lot like learned helplessness
for the last time, it's not "learned helplessness and a victim complex" i am just archetypically the Sacrificial Innocent and am fulfilling my role in the collective destiny
Marcus har för övrigt talat om learned helplessness som han ser hos dagens studenter. Inte nödvändigtvis AI- promptade saker (de anmäler han till disciplinnämnden som fusk), utan själva oförmågan att arbeta självständigt. Många kan svara på frågor på ett prov, men >
IMO, it is a form of Learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is where individuals, after experiencing repeated uncontrollable negative events of different types, come to believe they have no control over their situation, even when opportunities to change arise leading to passive acceptance.
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5/4/19 email Epstein - Bannon 2 months before he would be arrested for the last time. “Burdens of wealth. Inner success vs. external success. Affluenza. Why, if he is so rich, is he still unhappy? Learned helplessness translates into wanting to make a difference, not become irrelevant.”
JFC! The learned helplessness here is off the charts. The Congress is a >coequal branch of government<. Act like it!!
1\I think it's several things driving this. One is a hangover from the 90s/Carville era, which has been passed down as received wisdom since, that takes the form of a kind of learned helplessness, esp. in the Senate caucus. They don't really believe that *can* accomplish it.
This is unironically the position of most people online, who have such bad learned helplessness that they think our collective actions as a species are nonexistent and that mega-corporations are burning down the Amazon and growing alfalfa over it for fun
I know this is learned helplessness because the instacart guys are fine haha
Learned helplessness? Buddy I've never learned a thing in my life
"learned helplessness"? Well, I do consider myself a lifelong student
Instead of retiring, 3-5 GOP Congresspeople could stop this Administration cold. The culture in Congress that sees itself as the President’s handmaiden as opposed to the Article I branch has rotted every inch of it. Not just cowardice, a learned helplessness.
girl help the learned helplessness is inducing me to plead for intercession instead of changing my life with my own hands
but then they’ll call you the r slur for asking for a better option, AND not have a better option!! learned helplessness is a bitch sksks
I've said it before: I've made guides for topics & do not mind when folks have specific questions. But there's a learned helplessness where people refuse to put forth any effort and expect strangers to shoulder all of the work entirely and the term "gatekeep" is weaponized for it every time.
I don't think we can fully explain America's constitution crises without deep diving into the learned helplessness of liberal elites in the Democratic Party. Reagan's death is now old enough to buy a beer
I think it's a combo of catastrophizing and learned helplessness. It feels safer to assume the worst when overwhelmed with uncertainty and cruelty. Being reminded of our agency can feel invalidating. Survival instincts only have to be "good enough," so they're often a bit maladaptive, too.
Tho actually if you move more central from Camden you then do suddenly hit RBKC and Westminster, both of which I think you could fairly say have done quite a bit of learned helplessness.
Yeah - the challenge that I don't know how to solve is the 'I took one stop on the Tube and suddenly I am in a different local authority whose specialty is learned helplessness'.
If boomer men didn’t learn learned-helplessness would they learn anything at all?
My comment is a bit of a rhetorical handwave but, yeah, we're institutionalised in this country. Never experienced or allowed to experience better and a large dose of learned helplessness and lack of self-confidence.
I've literally asked people point blank "why not" and they never have an answer. It's just straight up stubborn learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness is an illusion.
White America would rather keep its learned helplessness in luxury and repopulate the permanent underclass
I'm a cishet man, so I promise that when I'm dealing with Boomers who can't touch type or figure out the difference between an app and a browser, they're not doing a gendered weaponized incompetence: they've genuinely internalized their learned helplessness!
So honestly, I think that a problem with the whole Weaponized Incompetence thing is that from the outside it's really hard to distinguish from learned helplessness. I spend a lot of time around Boomer men who internalized that men can't use office equipment 3/4 century ago--and it frustrates them!
Trump’s domestic weakness is Europe’s opportunity. Enough of this learned helplessness. European NATO is vastly more powerful than Russia, but is too used to relying on the US. We need a decisive breakup and not this Stockholm Syndrome. A proper Fr.Ted break up. F you. F your Ffing wife. I’ll shove…
Letting go of years of shame, guilt, and learned helplessness has felt like such a gift. I'm still learning the mechanics of what I need help with, but atleast now I understand there is no fault that I have to beat myself up over so I can have more capacity to figure out the help that I need.
candide in which part of the book tho my cold take on candide is that voltaire rightly comes down on leibnizian optimism as a learned helplessness engine each of our individual gardens may be small, but if we cultivate them in coordination, local changes build up into critical masses of change
expand the meaning! "learned helplessness" is very often more specific and more correct
Last week on Wonkhe: Despite robust regulations on paper, students feel powerless to act when universities fall short. Jim Dickinson unpacks research that lays bare a culture of learned helplessness across higher education
I swear to god most people have learned helplessness for adblockers
In like, 10 or 15 years, we're gonna find out that the only reason baby boomers and GenXers were able to do their jobs for this long without ANY tech literacy, is because the 20/30-somethings that work for them have been doing literally everything, as the older gens embraced learned helplessness.
i don’t need the learned helplessness machine, actually!!!!
low-key feeling the cruelty without meaning part it's just.. idk, like, why? :< learned helplessness is really not fun
The learned helplessness some trans people are expressing just so they can defend predatory GAC practices is just pathetic If you actually cared about trans liberation then you'd support solutions over rip-offs
Jaysus, the learned helplessness of men. I'm sorry
The more people hurt each other in order to help themselves/friends/family, the more pain, suffering, trauma, addiction, crime, mental illness, homelessness, violence, poverty, tribal division, hate, anger, demoralization, dehumanization, learned helplessness we have.
Your entire argument is circular: "We can't pass it because it's hard, and it's hard because we won't fight for it, and we won't fight for it because it's hard." That's not refutation that's learned helplessness.
You're describing why incrementalism fails while defending it as the only option. That's not wisdom, it's learned helplessness.
People get tired of it because it’s learned helplessness to keep appealing to nonexistent authorities in the media. Trump’s utterances are High Crimes. Demand consequences instead of dragging Obama, Biden and Kamala back into it. The consequences include removal. Remove the Regime in DC today!
Every time I see studies like this I think of the learned helplessness experiments and how they reveal more about the researchers and the field than the subjects.
This week on Wonkhe: Despite robust regulations on paper, students feel powerless to act when universities fall short. Jim Dickinson unpacks research that lays bare a culture of learned helplessness across higher education
A grad student just told me she "aspired to my level of zen" while troubleshooting a very complicated plate reader. I didn't have the heart to tell her that it's just applying learned helplessness in the right amounts and scenarios. #gradstudent #labrats #personalgrowth #zen
having ~50% of seats in the federal lawmaking body says differently. they are sharing the power sure, but saying they have none is learned helplessness
Learned helplessness is back.
shes not getting the whole floor. this is a token effort so she can go "Aw im no good at this can nono do it instead". Learned helplessness
No idea what mythology ou're projecting. My way is simply that I realize I am part of the world, and I help shape it. I embody the ways I want the world to be better. Everyone can. If my vocalization convinces a mere 2-3 people, that's change. And that is FAR better than your learned helplessness.
OMG You have learned helplessness You've adopted "We never fight because we might lose, and by not fighting we guarantee we have zero chance of ever winning" as your dogma. 1)
i do hope that learned helplessness in autistic communities can become more of a topic... i think some people just assume that *everything* about how they socialize is OK because they're autistic but there's some shit that isn't so much social cues as it is learning to be around other people better
If it had health warnings: "Some users have reported serious side effects including mind crippling anxiety, learned helplessness and standardized testing fatigue."
Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets and create learned helplessness that ensures people stay small.
"in charge." This dynamic mirrors learned helplessness, a state where repeated loss of control leads to passivity and emotional numbness. Healing the Brain Afterwards: Safety & predictability: Daily routines help calm the amygdala. Therapies like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and CONTINUED
Learning to do things like knit, hand sew, and make so much of my food from scratch feels like unlearning the learned helplessness that capitalism and consumerism reinforces. I’ve started looking at stuff and thinking, “I could fix that. It won’t be perfect, but it it’ll work.”
And in the face of our greatest security threat, what do we get here in Europe? Learned helplessness
Yeah I agree. Getting mad at the messenger is a blockable offense. There’s plenty we can do, and it’s not the responsibility of anyone exercising free speech by analyzing events to tell us as individuals what to do. We all have agency and responsibility. This learned helplessness must go.
Gotta say, Joel, your use of the word “Democrat” let alone the phrase “Classic Democrat learned helplessness” is a huge tell here.
I don't believe you. I think you just feel powerless like we all do and your gut reaction is to blame the party voters put into the minority. I see your comments about learned helplessness, fecklessness, etc. and conclude you're just lashing out and blaming Dems you don't like for our current sitch
Yup. It’s always “someone else” that’s “not doing something” or “is doing the wrong thing”?
Teasing kkkaroline for lying whilst wearing a cross is NOTHING compared to the hateful shit white people said about Vice President Kamala Harris It’s interesting to watch the blatant racism, learned helplessness, and uselessness on our side of the aisle
Got it. We tried something a couple times, and it didn't work. Therefore, give up. Classic Democrat learned helplessness. Fighters keep fighting.
American society says "meritocracy, hustle, try harder" out of one side of its mouth and engineers learned helplessness out of the other. I have long thought that this social dynamic of victim blaming laid off workers and poor people counts as emotional abuse. Am I wrong?
People who obsess over the tool rather than the goal are people exhibiting learned helplessness. bsky.app/profile/chro...
That's all I'm gonna say about the new hotness "discourse." I'm getting sick of the learned helplessness around transition almost as much as I'm sick of the cis controlled medical industry.
It's learned helplessness.
I think part of the problem is that the longer you go on never having had a job, the bigger the mountain you think you need to climb gets. Plus, multiple rejections can easily cause learned helplessness. We should have a pool of minimum wage jobs kids can move into to at least get a work habit.
They don’t realize that they are in a position to inform and shape perceptions, rather than just react to them. Learned helplessness has become the norm.
There will be no learned helplessness in our house because both my husband and I had dads that took us to Home Depot and build with us. And now our kids have that in us.
So there's this Microsoft Copilot ad that bugs me; maybe you've seen it? The young child approaches Mom with demands about her upcoming meal. No greens! No gluten! and something else. Mom immediately turns to the LLM on her phone for help. 1. The phrase "learned helplessness" comes to mind 2 […]
Fun fact. The Learned Helplessness Experiment was a part of most High Schools in the 1980s. It is no longer taught on any scale. https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1991318074801459226
Fun fact. The Learned Helplessness Experiment was a part of most High Schools in the 1980s. It is no longer taught on any scale.
The "Learned Helplessness" of AI https://himanshusinghbisht.substack.com/p/the-learned-helplessness-of-ai (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981825)
The "Learned Helplessness" of AI https://himanshusinghbisht.substack.com/p/the-learned-helplessness-of-ai
DIY computers are sliding into a niche art. I'm about to "kids these days" this, but damn, it's like everyone under 35 has a bad case of learned helplessness when it comes computers as a hobby. Ask a zoomer or even a younger millennial what parts are necessary for a working computer and they'll fail
The "Learned Helplessness" of AI Discussion
The "Learned Helplessness" of AI L: https://himanshusinghbisht.substack.com/p/the-learned-helplessness-of-ai C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981825 posted on 2025.11.19 at 11:54:06 (c=0, p=6)
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Something I desperately hope we might change if we survive the present moment is this awful learned helplessness of “the situation sucks and basically no one is happy with it but no one with the power to address it will choose to do so”
Poor Luci is trying so hard; he’s socially awkward, has learned helplessness, has abandonment issues, is touch starved and lonely…
It's all going to one big disgusting plan. Drain the rest of the world to make a paradise for the rich and powerful surrounded by the most learned helplessness population.
This would make me feel so hopeless as a kid when it was said to me
The green veil by Tamara Lempicka one isn’t nearly enough, but it sends a message of humanity and dignity to surviving palestinians and breaks the numbness of those watching who think one can’t make a difference. It breaks the learned helplessness narrative/spell.
Every now and then, I encounter a strange kind of performative learned helplessness about technology among a certain segment of humanities academics that I just can't wrap my head around.
Gotta say an album about learned helplessness under fascism is hitting a little differently now than when I first heard it
#poem Stay scared Be frightened God and others will hold it for you We can fight for the future we believe in To end this world of tyranny Nights of Anger Of Silent tears Of learned helplessness Keep fighting for your family For Friends Fight for the world you have And what could be Fight scared
Note to self; while everything I said earlier about pushing myself to write again and not falling prey to learned helplessness, "I have COVID" is a valid and good reason to rest, especially when to protect my wrists I need to dictate. I can start as soon as my throat is not full of angry bees.
To be clear: burnout absolutely is real. But if you’re not sure if it is burnout, maybe trying to reframe it is a good way to figure out if it’s that or if it’s learned helplessness. Maybe ask if it’s coming from an external source or from inside, and if the latter, what the root of the feeling is?
the only thing special ed taught me was learned helplessness
If you think "American soldiers would never ..." - Google "Abu Ghraib", then "Stanford Prison Experiment", then "mechanisms of moral disengagement", then "Milgram experiment". Then, "Learned helplessness". Finally, to learn where you are, Kubler-Ross denial.
Teachers complaining how parents baby boys. Learned helplessness and lack of accountability. I am reading and listening.
I believe that is learned helplessness (not to be rude, you are justified in feeling this way). People are not naturally inclined to anything but living.
This is a learned helplessness feature of a complacent liberal political culture that can be addressed. The men who charged the beaches at Normandy were liberals too. We don’t have to accept that this is our lot because this is how liberals are.
I am not fully blaming them. I have not talked to them in close to three years, that is on me for reinforcing the behavior. But I think learned helplessness is a disease, and it is transmissible. I caught it, and now I have to treat the cause, not the symptoms.
Any advice on beating learned helplessness?
Asking the military to take that responsibility is foolish and dangerous. The citizen electorate asking them to do this is demonstrating their learned helplessness and are abdicating their authority. It is time to take responsibility and force our representatives to act appropriately.
Post-Hayekian Learned Helplessness
learned helplessness will be the death of us
This feels like learned helplessness but it's actively being taught. It's like giving a kid a calculator but never teaching them even the most basic elements of math. Like yes they can type 1+1 but they don't actually learn it. Which feels like a big problem for the long run.
I'm a little biased because I'm a web developer, but I keep trying to make the case to people that there's an element of learned helplessness to this. Kids in the late 90s / early 2000s were making websites and sharing them without getting paid, or listed on Google. We can still do that!
i was talking about it with a friend earlier trying to clarify my thoughts because i often say learned helplessness is a disease which i feel like is a core part of my politics in that to me the human condition is action, growth, and change, so stagnation is self-dehumanization, which is very bad!
The 1994 midterms are second only to the 1984 Reagan landslide in traumas that led to the Dem leadership's learned helplessness
Learned helplessness. Even if they believe the science that you send them, they say they cannot do anything. Let the kid wear a mask and they will be bullied and beaten up.
I see many suffering from learned helplessness hoping the military will come to their aid. Let me remind you that during the last Civil War, many officers and enlisted men betrayed the Republic (28%). Our military is made up of the same people you see every day. Many of them voted for Trump.
If you are waiting for them to do anything you have already lost. What you are doing is called learned helplessness. They don't have any mechanism to resist. Sure they can disobey an illegal order but what institutions are going to protect them? Reread above, only the American citizen can do it.
"I didn't see it". I've heard of learned helplessness. This is learned ignorance. Why doesn't the Speaker of the House not pay attention to current events (inasmuch as the House is not even in session, he should have the free time to do so). Something about his paycheck depending on not seeing.
like seriously. it's some sort of learned helplessness or something. you now have the power to materially improve your presence on the internet. why aren't you using that power? why are you still waiting for mommy to come scold the bullies for you when
Learned helplessness as kink
I see they are demonstrating their learned helplessness and dare I say laziness.
I don't know what this means, but I'm gonna convince myself it means "don't embrace learned helplessness"
Military coups never work out well. Stop being naive and displaying a learned helplessness. Start by getting active politically if you want this to stop. Hell, run for something if representatives are not listening to you.
Also. You should probably be subscribed to your house rep and senator’s youchewbs anyways, with notifications on. None of this learned helplessness, newborn baby bird “they should have telepathically put the info in my brain, not given me links I won’t click or go to find” dumb shit.
Learned helplessness. Wait for others to do something.
The Right's conspiratorial media system promotes mental degeneration and a sense of learned helplessness that can only yield destructive politics. My latest UnHerd essay: "Save us from the crank Right." unherd.com/2025/10/save...
The USA's bureaucratic dysfunction creates a continuous cycle of systemic frustration of learned helplessness and customer disempowerment that creates psychological distress via government and corporation diffusion of responsibility. They make errors with your data, accounts, paperwork, etc.
This is a great column. I also think that there’s some learned helplessness at work here. It’s not that the country is MAGA, but that Trump keeps escaping any accountability so he cannot be defeated, which is false.
I have a concept that's like Bojack but about a former Disney Channel sitcom star whose agent used to keep him in a dog crate
Hey…. Like I said, they ultimately control what goes on the ballots. And then instill learned helplessness in all of us. Idk about you, but I’d rather see some tangible change in my lifetime than three generations from now.
“They’re stupid… They’re mentally ill…” Maybe they are Nazis and you all are living in learned helplessness.
force left standing between tyranny and freedom is us, true patriots. Patriots must shake off their slumber, break free of learned helplessness, and rise. It is our duty to remind America what it really stands for, inalienable rights, not the whims of a mad king and his grotesque desires.
Because I'm sick of the LEFT crying victim for the last 25 years. That's Learned Helplessness. That's victim to volunteer. Trump breaks norms with impunity and Dems just point it out with sternly worded letters. Dems need to start breaking every norm or else our country is gone.
I am in the streets every weekend, 8 months, fwiw. I firmly believe us commoners standing in the breach is far less effective than our elected leaders doing the same. I'm beyond exhausted watching our leaders saying how there's an assault on our constitution, but doing nothing LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
yeah like I reckon you grasp that thread because the mainstream offers nothing but learned helplessness and so dunks feel like accomplishment. and I don't want to harsh whatever gets her through the horrors. it's just like, damn, I've got some catch-up work to do to radicalize my mom, haha
Then the listeners come away with learned helplessness.
POV: you thought you ran out of it is what it is but you found more is what it is
Learned helplessness. It can break in an instant. And it should.
"As we see for the nth time with their latest invasion of #Ukraine, to be #russian is to be an unrepentantly chauvinistic imperialist who consciously wallows in a pathologically violent form of learned helplessness closely akin to that of the proverbial wife-beater who screams at the top of […]
Knowing how much of the horrors relies on idealogical chest pounding and big talk to try and overwhelm people into angry learned helplessness despair and trying to not let it make you bitter while also seeing all this like "you really expect us to tolerate 3 more years of this bullshit?"
There is a lot to be said about the lack of repairability, serviceability and general disposable nature of a lot of things these days. That said, I feel part of it comes down to mindset as well, and a sort of learned helplessness in the face of regular maintenance
this is definitionally learned helplessness give up and let it happen because this is the ultimate conclusion of the abusive culture we've tolerated.
Learned helplessness, on top of a lot of prior civilian organizing being shut down by the government through McCarthyism, Red and Lavender Scares, union busting, as well as targeting protestors and leftist organizations.
I’ve seen it labeled as a learned helplessness that you see across the political spectrum - “The democrats are so self-evidently terrible that what can we do but let Republicans rule?” See also the “voting is pointless” crowd
The collective amount of learned helplessness on this app is truly uncomfortable and incredible you'd think after atrocity and atrocity you'd get more radical and want to act but no, it seems #bluesky #leftism
There is a lot of learned helplessness in the US population, thanks to schools run by conservatives and churches. The zero tolerance anti-bullying policies made things worse by teaching US students they would get more punishment than their bully if they defended themselves.
There’s an opposition? Where, dem Congresscritters are scared and useless after decades of learned helplessness.
▶️ Echoes today: Many orgs today are still working as if it’s 1910. Order-giver and order-taker culture, learned helplessness, a plan determined up-front in a Gantt chart by a PM with success being did you hit the plan (output over outcomes), with Jira tickets being passed (like an Instruction Card)
Learned Helplessness. “Oh are you leaving? Is that why you can’d do it for me?” “No. I’m offering to show you how to do your stations batters. Bc that’s *your job*” <person keeps doign busy work> <screams into the void>
learned helplessness is accepting the thrill of falling on your ass as a substitute for the unreachable satisfaction of kicking the football
“Learned helplessness” We CAN’T give up!!! The future of our country depends on it
Once punishment is seen as swift and arbitrary, even mild resistance feels suicidal Learned helplessness sets in
Authoritarian systems quickly establish examples of punishment Observing a few people being crushed conditions the rest to stay quiet (classic learned helplessness)
very hard to distinguish between it being a 'omg you people cant do anything'/learned helplessness thing vs 'i genuinely am having a bad time'. nothing is real and neither is this problem. if i simply Do my things. idk man!
So, DJT is off the leash. SCOTUS is high on their own supply. Primus has a good argument for congress has a bad case of learned helplessness. Sanford Levinson, as a scholar, buys into the Primus argument. Citizen readers of the constitution have some homework to do.
Counsel, I am sure you know that nothing about any of this is "normal". It is learned helplessness along the lines of Stockholm Syndrome. It is only going to get worse, so long as Trump and his goon squad is in power.
fear of spiders is learned helplessness perpetrated by men to give them purpsoe
It's surely in part an expression of learned helplessness from having as a strong prior that nothing can ever truly change for the better, especially on climate, so any downside must be inflated & all proportion lost. (Also, I love this thread/Q bc it reflects our experience of the info environment)
The learned helplessness of students is so frustrating. They don’t want to try, they just want to ask for help immediately. It’s not laziness though; they just don’t want to fail, which is highly relatable.
And It's a learned helplessness we've been led along to by a bunch of robe wearing bribe takers, when the proper reaction to McDonnell was never to treat it as valid precedent, but to criminally indict Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.
Learned helplessness is baked into to neoliberalism, it must be abandoned if you want to actually do anything
I think there's a lot of learned helplessness about discovering, indicting and convicting criminals who give or receive bribes, and I think we need to unlearn this helplessness extremely fast and incredibly hard
To make it more difficult for people to understand how their computer and data works. Creating learned helplessness is a core goal of modern tech companies after they discovered that renting solutions is so much more profitable than selling tools.
There's so much learned helplessness I see these days and it's so frustrating knowing lethal force is permitted against anyone who isn't fascist now. #anarchism
It's called "learned helplessness".
I feel like there’s this learned helplessness in Democratic leadership right now. They feel like they can’t beat Trump so the best option is to let Trump beat himself. But that’s just letting the house burn because you think the arsonist will get mad at the fire department.
istg the party had been showing their bellies like whipped dogs ever since Reagan took 49 states in 1984 One of the biggest problems with the leadership gerontocracy is their passing on this learned helplessness
wait do people generally view learned helplessness as the fault of the person or did i just read a particularly bleak empathy void online exchange.. bc isn't literally the whole point of identifying it that past experiences have conditioned you to feel no control so to get out requires compassion???
It's been on the cards for a while now. Australia could and should be doing a full court press on English language screen production (and non-English - Asia is right there) because there will always be a demand, but we've got a serious learned helplessness problem.
So much more. Your learned helplessness is so pathetic.
It's the learned helplessness of authoritarianism.
excuse me light and night writers
Genuinely don't think it's that. Think it's more learned helplessness and/or moderation as a virtue in itself. Politics is the art of the possible and not all compromise is nihilistic. But you have to clearly know and explain your own values for that to the case.
It's called "Learned Helplessness."
It's faking until you make it in its purest form. Not even seeing it as faking it anymore. Grasping onto a "truth" until the facts are made to catch up. It's all secular raptures. True AI. The Storm. A learned helplessness that only knows how to be loyal to something and pray for a better tomorrow
Learned helplessness.
All set up at Slightly Furry downtown! We’ll be out here till 12am!
I'm not sure I've seen learned helplessness from this misuse of the fascism label. Are there examples? There's been great organizing and I don't think we need to stop to re-read the far-right-o-meter. In the rights' view, any dissenting call for normalcy is labeled as "anti-fascist" anyway.
Right... Tommy gets to label him fascist... sort of... be we aren't smart enough to know when to use the F word... And finally WHAT'S THE POINT? Besides this "learned helplessness" which seems to exist in Toms mind alone, what does this discussion accomplish?
Americans have been systematically programmed over multiple generations into learned helplessness. "WHAT SHOULD WE DO?" IDK...
Maybe it’s time to attack back. Stop with the learned helplessness.
I've worked w many vulnerable youth & adults who experienced learned helplessness. It's a phenomenon that affects many people who feel powerless. And, we're experiencing this on a nation-wide scale now. Frankly, I'm scared as hell.
It's not full fascism yet (for the native-born), but nearly everything that reaches the Supreme Court results in a Trump win and constitutional erosion. I don't say that to induce learned helplessness. I say that because I want large swaths of the country to hate SCOTUS the way they hate Trump.
I wonder if they even know what a thermal camera is. Learned helplessness and eager ignorance is one of the deepest horrors of a dictatorship. Its even more starkly obvious with NK soldiers. These people have, as entire cultures, been starved of the capacity for intuition.
I feel I have to emphasize the learned helplessness. We have A LOT. But generally correct
IMPORTANT. Please watch. ⬇️ Harden your mind against the idea that you have no power, that nothing you can do can stop Trump from consolidating power, that resistance is useless. Harden your mind against learned helplessness.
Lazy, stupid, not paying attention, working too hard and exhausted, rich and making money from it, learned helplessness. Myriad reasons.
Yes! We need to keep making this point and highlighting every win, whether large or small. Too many people are sinking into despair or learned helplessness, assuming that nothing they do could matter. We won't always succeed, but if we all keep pushing back, our collective efforts will work.
List 3 things you can talk about for 3+ hours with no prep 1. Tools of the system: how we traded our humanity for commodities and became the system itself. 2. Learned helplessness: the governments are the most successful criminal organizations. 3. Frogs
But how do you treat an entire nation suffering from learned helplessness? So glad to see the psychology of this explained.
I agree with every tweet in this thread except for #5. Calling the government “fascist” does not necessarily equate to learned helplessness. Elon Musk, Rush Limbaugh, and the entire right-wing craze-o-sphere called libs that for decades. They were not learnedly-helpless—quite The contrary.
Learned helplessness--resist my friends, resist with all your heart and soul. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMFKVtFV/
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this is hypothesis 1 (personal irrelevance; cognitive & affective). h2: learned helplessness (cog)/hopelessness (aff); h3: lack of understanding (cog)/trust (aff) on the movements; h4: too much on the plate alr (work/family/personal issues) https://t.co/NWekXCnOJq
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The corporate circus is great at times, but there’s a learned helplessness. On the other hand, with being an entrepreneur, imposter syndrome is way more demanding than any boss I had.
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Your annual engagement survey arrives 6 months late. By then, your best people have already mentally checked out. Traditional surveys teach one lesson: speaking up is POINTLESS. The silence that follows isn't disengagement. It's learned helplessness.
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@BowTiedHRT This is where my lines of reasoning take me. Poor discipline ➡️ learned helplessness ➡️ miserable and hopeless
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RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
@LiberalHivemind 100% he'll blame and double down. It's all the left knows - learned helplessness and victim mentality.
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
@ponyvilleYIMBY @MofuMofuRabu Putting my blind hamster into the learned helplessness box max setting high voltage so I have something to watch while I eat totino party pizza
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
@SolarisLightSc3 @nickllodeon3 @DelusionPosting Maybe so. But to me this all sounds like learned helplessness. The immediate assumption that the left already has a masterful web of control that nothing can penetrate it, except for all of the things we do that penetrate it.
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
The capeshit stuff isnt that hard to explain. It's a combo of learned helplessness, transhumanism, and anti gun propaganda. Nephew was playing Spiderman and said "Only the bad guys have guns." Had to explain how Spiderman would get capped in a hurry in real life.
@camboysh PPLLEAASSSEEE PLEASSEEE MAKE SH SO PATHETIC AND LEARNED HELPLESSNESS AND SOOO SADDD BUT MINDBREAK AND HE LOVES IT BUT IS SO HESITANT AND RELUCTANT OKLL
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
@DVinny84 @Gunz_go_boom no he doesn't man is capable of governing himself he doesn't need a nanny that's your indoctrination from govt school talking specifically -- the psychological complex known as learned helplessness
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @lalwkl: In fairness to Yusuf, this is an excellent quote. 'Learned helplessness' is a fantastic way to describe it. These pathetic spec…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @StevenGWalker74: @willshome @thisisyourparty Besides that Zarah has given no indication she wants rid of Corbyn, a position not shared…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
@keljej Learned Helplessness
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
@Marsupilami_777 Genau das ist der Punkt: Du siehst die Schwächen, erklärst sie aber zur "Alternativlosigkeit". Das nennt man learned helplessness, man redet sich ein, es gebe keine Wahl, und verteidigt damit genau das System, das man eigentlich kritisiert. Wer jede Kritik mit "es gibt keine
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @tomhfh: Killer quote from @ZiaYusufUK on the 'won't this face legal challenges' questions. "The fact these questions are even asked in…
RT @SpiritofPines: One of the many reasons that Turning Point is the future of the Republican Party is that they don’t have any of the emba…
RT @altayals: Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
RT @altayals: Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
RT @altayals: Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
RT @altayals: Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
RT @altayals: Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
Sugestão de episódio do @naruhodopodcast da semana! https://t.co/3XYyCA9x9r
RT @MichaelJayBTC: https://t.co/8rjSRqdRNp
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Except of course, the actual experiment found that prior exposure to trauma conferred immunity against learned helplessness. https://t.co/c6PkK91cLa https://t.co/48Ww203OSL
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
RT @altayals: Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ide…
Excelente episódio como sempre @tomaschiaverini! Discussão importante e mostra mais uma vez a importância de acabar com a ideia de Educação para o trabalho. Fica tb a recomendação do @naruhodopodcast ep 284 sobre os efeitos do desemprego! https://t.co/BH7m1EvUo0 https://t.co/h8Z2SJK5lh
RT @colonialnews94: https://t.co/cHN6C16Z4v https://t.co/baN1vlImH7
https://t.co/cHN6C16Z4v https://t.co/baN1vlImH7
RT @colonialnews94: LEARNED HELPLESSNESS 7050 MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, PH.D.1 Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pennsyl…
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS 7050 MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, PH.D.1 Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania https://t.co/cHN6C16Z4v https://t.co/VbThXl4MBx
@FinDrm Та ессе з психології по Холоу Найт https://t.co/5fNNYBeR9H
@HkonMk Nothing like that inferno called Deepnest https://t.co/yRJLYQGhu9
https://t.co/fXkHRpCBnl
Tem até um @naruhodopodcast que conversa um pouco com essa questão e como a precarização desses tipos de relações, compromete e muito a saúde mental. https://t.co/fruYdfbnBr
@RevaSteenbergen Did you know that in the famous “learned helplessness” experiments by Martin Seligman in the 1960s, this is what they really had to do? They had to put a leash on the learned helplessness dogs, and physically drag them away from the shock side. https://t.co/FV9OQtWiAR
@prettypilled the vid is ok just finished it but im watching this rn u don't have to watch it but its hollow knight so i just wanted to drop it here https://t.co/NrNGiIDI29
Less autonomy, paradoxically more stress (cf. learned helplessness experiments in the 70s https://t.co/7IBlmCDBTQ) 15/n
Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play https://t.co/VmzuP6GCRf via @YouTube
@AnimeMisfit Your hatred of Deepnest is making me remember this. https://t.co/f0l34JMHFz
@kingsimbad_ Sure here’s one I legit just watched which sparked the tweet https://t.co/47s6a7tIbg
Este video es jesucristo https://t.co/JzcC0dLdLS
Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play https://t.co/zGI9usGpN1 via @YouTube
For the #indepthWednesday of week 06/2021 we picked the first 2021 video from #PsychOfPlay series by @DarylTalksGames It's about psychological helplessness and #HollowKnight :) https://t.co/cp7ZbVLero
I’m not scared, YOU’RE SCARED! https://t.co/wqWpZrRMwm
( ; >◡<).o(This is an excellent explanation about what my experience in Deepnest was.) #HollowKnight Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play https://t.co/ZSqsCVDjl1
This was a really good video, need more HK content https://t.co/ixtp3CB0mK
Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play https://t.co/Km4AwXwFPr via @YouTube
Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play https://t.co/htOboIGSiE via @YouTube
Psychological Helplessness and Deepnest | Psych of Play → https://t.co/2FRxo2409L
oh dang, psychological analysis of deepnest https://t.co/QMvwqT7YMQ
FINALMENTE ACHEI UM VÍDEO QUE EXPRESSA O QUE TORNA DEEPNEST TÃO INCRÍVEL. https://t.co/3w0pqCmUOm
@soursebs I never actually realised how good the area is until I watched this video. It's a pretty good watch. https://t.co/4bXX1yHOLb
https://t.co/YIUzSpPE1Z
How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/k5mEbf8wkS via @YouTube
How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/k5mEbf8wkS via @YouTube #psychology
RT @SciShow: Unexpectedly losing a job is hard, and it can have lasting effects on your mental health. But knowing what to look out for and…
عن العجز المُتعلم والاكتئاب. https://t.co/ZVACdjyLqA
RT @SciShow: Unexpectedly losing a job is hard, and it can have lasting effects on your mental health. But knowing what to look out for and…
How losing your job changes you https://t.co/6202V6gnqG
RT @CharlesIkenna23: How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/2zeTUD1ksm via @YouTube
How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/2zeTUD1ksm via @YouTube
RT @SciShow: Unexpectedly losing a job is hard, and it can have lasting effects on your mental health. But knowing what to look out for and…
How losing your job changes you, https://t.co/iIsd54StAI learned helplessness & loss of t... https://t.co/yM3J9MQKod
RT @CaptainGeko: How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/WA4NV3JUey
RT @SciShow: Unexpectedly losing a job is hard, and it can have lasting effects on your mental health. But knowing what to look out for and…
Unexpectedly losing a job is hard, and it can have lasting effects on your mental health. But knowing what to look out for and seeking treatment can help you get back on track. https://t.co/7pWilws0dh https://t.co/WMpc9h8vVC
How Losing Your Job Changes You https://t.co/WA4NV3JUey
RT @SpiralCentric: @quatoria This is different than my reading of Seligman, w Abrahamson, Teasdale, & Peterson's research on learned helple…
@quatoria This is different than my reading of Seligman, w Abrahamson, Teasdale, & Peterson's research on learned helplessness Th. https://t.co/fAmgIZggI2 https://t.co/OHV4c41OEH
Edit: #sixwordscience See: Learned Helplessness (1972) https://t.co/NT5spJAb84
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