How terrible is learned helplessness

The horror of learned helplessness lies in the subtle influence, it brings a negative state is continuous, endless, in the long run, will also lead to other psychological problems. Netizens jokingly called “lying flat” behavior is very close to learned helplessness, generally due to the continuous experience of failure or setback, and lead to individuals feel unable to control things, powerless, resulting in self-loathing, loss of self-confidence in the psychological state and behavior, mainly in the following areas: 1, cognitive bias: the similar events and their own 1. cognitive bias: the cognition of similar events and their own abilities will be biased, unable to correctly attribute, doubt themselves and external things, and continuously immersed in a state of depression; 2. helplessness: the initial manifestation of anxiety, irritability and other emotional disorders, as the situation continues to develop, will change into apathy, pessimism, despair and helpless emotional state; 3. It is difficult to raise interest in anything; 4. Lack of collective consciousness: mainly manifested by poor communication with others, often complaining about people and things around, or emitting negative emotions, indifferent collective consciousness, and the first reaction to get into a negative event is to shirk responsibility. This effect is particularly prominent among the student population; 5. Other psychological disorders: It is the phenomenon of psychic deviance such as despair, depression, and demoralization due to learned helplessness that leads to the occurrence of many psychological and behavioral problems. Being caught in negativity and helplessness for a long time can make life depressing and life is in a low-pressure state for a long time, and in serious cases patients can easily develop depression or self-injurious behavior. People who suffer from learned helplessness can easily lose themselves, stay in a state of self-doubt, self-denial and self-imposed limits for a long time, and become pessimistic and desperate about the future, leaving it to fate. Even though the opportunity to get out of a difficult situation is right in front of them, they do not try to get out of it and wait for the pain to come in a self-abandonment manner. In children, learned helplessness may lead to a failure to develop a full personality during childhood. The change of learned helplessness may be a long process that requires challenging one’s perceptions and starting over to try things that have long been considered hopeless, which takes a lot of courage, but we also have to try to break through the prison, just like the saying – “You can rarely win, but sometimes you do “.