Many people around the world suffer from learned helplessness regardless of their age, race, or background. Learned helplessness is a term that refers to a condition closely related to a person’s personal experience with adverse situations that are out of their control making them feel powerless. Many individuals develop learned helplessness through the experiences they are force to face causing them to differ from other individuals who haven’t learned it.
Individuals develop learned helplessness when exposed to uncontrollable and painful events in their lives from which they couldn’t scape or prevent. These individuals learned that such events had nothing to do with their actions or choices but were rather unavoidable and would occur randomly throughout …show more content…
To the contrary, individuals who have not been exposed to helpless situations tend to be more optimistic while facing difficult situations in their lives. Individuals who have learned helplessness tend to crumble down to the rise of difficult situations because they believe they won’t succeed even if they are more than capable to do so. While other individuals who have not succeed in a situation in the past remained unaffected by such failure using that situation as a learning experience to continue to try. In other words, individuals with learned helplessness disorder believe and interpret the uncontrollable and painful situations as permanent and internal. While other individuals that might face the same circumstances approach them in a much optimistic way where they believe the situations are temporary that provides them with more helpful information to help them succeed in the