Learned Helplesness Part I

I have been reading up on something called Learned Helplessness. Learned Helplessness is linked to depression. Here is a definition I found online:

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Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to believe that it is helpless in a particular situation. It has come to believe that it has no control over its situation and that whatever it does is futile. As a result, the human being or the animal will stay passive in the face of an unpleasant, harmful or damaging situation, even when it does actually have the power to change its circumstances.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

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more on this later.

Lily