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"helplessness" Definitions
  1. the feeling of being unable to take care of yourself or do things without the help of other people; the feeling of being unable to do anything about a situation

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In film, the final girl is a way for men to vicariously experience helplessness, but only because we consider helplessness the domain of women.
Well, under the UBI, he can no longer plead helplessness.
The senseless tragedy will undoubtedly evoke anger, sadness and helplessness.
We partly climb trees because we want to experience helplessness.
But thinking that way is a form of learned helplessness.
I know the feeling of helplessness wrought by a headline.
The ambiguous legal landscape has compounded the sense of helplessness.
Andrew is sobbing, a man of 27 reduced to helplessness.
The feeling of helplessness that comes with abuse is magnified.
"I saw terrified eyes, tearful faces, fear, helplessness," Przybysz said.
That causes "a sense of helplessness" toward the Palestinian issue.
Hate converts a sense of helplessness into one of action.
"A sense of desperation and helplessness is emerging," he said.
To accept your own helplessness before it's forced on you.
The men and women here convey deep torment and helplessness.
But in New York, victims told of years of helplessness.
But they are often trapped by their perception of helplessness.
But it's missing its predecessor's sense of ambivalence and helplessness.
I sit and watch it unfold— in helplessness and dread.
"At the core of trauma is helplessness," van der Kolk says.
She said the hardest part of solitary confinement was the helplessness.
The absence of typical defensive wounds suggests total surprise and helplessness.
Being in control of something kept me from withering into helplessness.
I can say that I felt a great feeling of helplessness.
Manning said feelings of "hopelessness and helplessness" are hard to shake.
The sadness and helplessness I continue to feel are almost unbearable.
The theory of learned helplessness was derived from experiments on dogs.
It staves off the feeling we hate most of all: helplessness.
This feeling of helplessness and loss would be matched with frustration.
Now, there's this helplessness for those who are there, trapped inside.
This does not lead inevitably to U.S. helplessness, or global disaster.
It also captured their heartbreak and helplessness at being let go.
"That's a pretty normal reaction to helplessness and terror," she added.
"We're just seeing spikes in helplessness, depression, and frustration," Corchado said.
There is a sense of helplessness, being stranded amongst cresting waves.
Gene said he's not angry, but he often feels overcome by helplessness.
As the bodies pile up, a climate of helplessness and resignation ensues.
First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues. Helplessness.
Do we know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness?
But this feeling of helplessness is exactly what makes voting so important.
Rage and helplessness and loss and resignation — I know this feeling well.
And that rage is really just a refuge from sadness and helplessness.
Our collective sense of helplessness has become more instructive through the years.
At the same time, a new feeling of helplessness was setting in.
What I do feel is sadness, anger, frustration, helplessness and, admittedly, fear.
It's a male problem, one of absurd expectations and learned emotional helplessness.
"What can happen over time is this feeling of helplessness," Lee said.
That decreased the helplessness and depression I felt after the second episode.
In hindsight, I wish I'd hinted more at the helplessness I felt.
There's a learned helplessness in complaining that an undemocratic system produces undemocratic results.
I still haven't been able to shake that feeling of frustration and helplessness.
We learned there was a widespread sense of helplessness among the Qaeda leadership.
Fourth, orcas have virtually no control over their lives, leading to learned helplessness.
Like deer trapped in headlights, they are paralyzed by their helplessness and indecision.
As a result, they are overwhelmed and faced with a sense of helplessness.
A heavy debt load can lead to a sense of helplessness for borrowers.
That's equal part politics and a general sense, across party lines, of helplessness.
An abused citizenry falls into "learned helplessness" and becomes more pliant and cowed.
Afterward, he would call Kelly to rage about their cruelty and his helplessness.
But I realized that what I'd felt wasn't fear so much as helplessness.
Part of what makes coronavirus-related anxiety tough is the feeling of helplessness.
But Super Mario Run relegates its female characters to positions of near helplessness.
O'Neill's beloved older brother, James, Jr., or Jamie, inherited both forms of helplessness.
Plus, he could relate to the frustration and helplessness some disabled people experience.
When she asked me about the book, I made a gesture of helplessness.
It's a story about very real helplessness that manages a glimmer of hope.
"Much of the general population is in a state of complete helplessness," Francisco added.
The mother of three looks visibly shaken as she recalls the helplessness she felt.
The sense of helplessness I've felt in the last days is difficult to describe.
I like the image of helplessness of the 'victim' and I want to help.
"In the end, there was simply shock, horror, helplessness and unbearable pain," Laura recalls.
Almost immediately, a sense of helplessness began to fill our glass and marble walls.
With a sense of helplessness, Zachary agreed to let him do it if necessary.
Backstage, we talked about our feelings of helplessness and the need to do something.
It's also a balm against the feelings of helplessness plaguing many Americans post-election.
That feeling of helplessness was one of the worst parts of the lockdown period.
Nothing we were doing was making him better, and that helplessness fed our anxiety.
Gripped by fear, anxiety and helplessness, parents refused to let their children play outside.
" Crawford replies, with a tragic mix of self-knowledge and helplessness, "Yes, it is.
I know the feeling of helplessness, and I know the disappointment of justice denied.
"The level of distress and helplessness was incredibly exacerbated by this process," Corchado said.
Even so, he recalled in 2001, the screenwriter's lot is ultimately one of helplessness.
"There's an indication of a sense of helplessness among the patients," MSF told Reuters.
Patients' agonizing deaths and the helplessness of doctors were regularly reported in the press.
"These were horrible crimes made worst by the helplessness of the victims," said Cpt.
That&aposs the very essence of learned helplessness ' and how to get over it.
"It's honestly heartbreaking, with a feeling of helplessness, while still holding out hope," Joshua says.
It feeds into all kinds of fantasies about power, control, and the intimacy of helplessness.
Mr. Smith's shock at being set upon was matched only by his feeling of helplessness.
YC: In Busty Temptation I recorded a part of my life, that feeling of helplessness.
The helplessness and disconnect that a father can feel rang true in both these trailers.
"Don't be helpless or at least don't let your helplessness overburden the host," he said.
A misplaced step could lead to depression, feelings of helplessness and increased isolation during recovery.
They may be overly personal, only concerned about their own agenda, or practice learned helplessness.
Jesmille Darbouze gives Queen Marie a damp air of helplessness that undercuts her optimistic assertions.
Many know the strain of helplessness that fuels rage; the need to right a wrong.
They also can give up their posture of learned helplessness when it comes to Russia.
Both shed light upon modern capitalist desires and the subjects' helplessness in navigating their fate.
And nearly every government official in those areas expressed helplessness about the strike forces' operations.
His late wife was in charge of everything in this realm, so he feigns helplessness.
It doesn't expect miracles, but it rejects a grim helplessness, a spirit of inevitable doom.
It doesn't expect miracles, but it rejects a grim helplessness, a spirit of inevitable doom.
The trip had been grueling, and I was angry at my grandfather — at his helplessness.
But as the dancers repeat the gesture it starts to expand into an idea: helplessness.
She added with some helplessness that it is the men who should be held accountable.
"There was a feeling of helplessness, where you want to get down and help," says Scoville.
The show faltered in season 2 by spending too much time wallowing in suffering and helplessness.
His feigned helplessness after the fact is transparent to anyone who cares to consider the situation.
Meteorologists expressed a sense of queasiness and helplessness as their worst fears about Harvey were realized.
That helplessness is thought to be one consequence of intelligence—or, at least, of brain size.
"Someone in the movement said, 'It's not about learned helplessness, it's about learned hopefulness,' " she says.
The reader can thereby identify with the heroine and share in her increasing alarm and helplessness.
Vance loves and hates them with the helplessness of so many emotions about home and family.
The contrast between Dhavale's privilege and Manda and Ajji's helplessness is always apparent in the film.
Unfortunately, too many of them seem to be afflicted with a case of learned bureaucratic helplessness.
But we're also trying to chip away at our own feeling of helplessness by giving back.
There are demographics, personalities, and life experience factors that funnel down to extreme helplessness and desperation.
In that moment, it also became a story about helplessness and what hurricanes take from us.
"They are up and down, they are everywhere," she said, throwing her arms up in helplessness.
" The "horror and helplessness of the fall," he goes on, "are intensified by an uncaring world.
It is these desires, and the helplessness they often stem from, that deradicalization efforts must address.
Out of the helplessness grew a passion to help other women navigate the male-dominated industry.
It makes me sick to think they face their final moments in a state of helplessness.
Abuse is Rose's inheritance, bequeathed to her son half in helplessness and half in broken devotion.
What was depression becomes expression, and self-pity and helplessness are transformed into dignity, integrity, and courage.
But all of these games touch on different forms of helplessness and frustration for the AI players.
But when you add in the illness, it adds a certain level of helplessness from my perspective.
He articulated like no other the universal unease and helplessness felt by society in a changing world.
As the binary fades away, I'm struck with a feeling I seldom experience in modern MMOs: helplessness.
"My main motivation for becoming part of this lawsuit was a sense of helplessness," Kibby told CNN.
Her father was one, and her childhood fear and helplessness from dealing with him destroyed her courage.
A particularly scary aspect is the fact that hopelessness and helplessness are actually symptoms of the illness.
We saw, live, the helplessness of parents who had texted their kids and not gotten an answer.
Rare is the work that manages to empathetically convey the helplessness and disorientation of the condition himself.
It was a radical shift in policy, inciting feelings of outrage — and helplessness — all across the country.
Utter helplessness, I suppose—the impotence of knowing nothing you do or say will stop what's happening.
And coloring within an outlined structure can help to contain and organize feelings of distress and helplessness.
Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the Bank of Japan, expressed a similar mix of helplessness and optimism.
This movement emerged from frustration and helplessness; this dark place of despair bringing into being something hopeful.
That the Freeman children are hostages to their mother's impulsiveness makes their helplessness only that much worse.
What does it say about our society if we fetishize helplessness and submitting to someone else's will?
"In the short term, it's hard not to be pessimistic, to feel a real helplessness," Law said.
Their emotional responses to events of the #MeToo era vacillate between extreme anger and helplessness, she said.
I felt as if there were nothing left of me but a compound of fear and helplessness.
"It was one of the worst feelings of helplessness," Kim said to The Harvard Gazette in 2017.
It then becomes harder for police officers to solve crimes, creating an air of lawlessness and helplessness.
But we end a crazy year huddled in the cold comfort of petrified division, united in helplessness.
I started photographing this room out of the helplessness and despair I felt about these senseless deaths.
It transforms what ought to be a movement for women's empowerment into an emblem for female helplessness.
The end result is this: persistent mass shootings, persistent gun deaths, persistent helplessness in the face of a problem that has no end in sight—the kind of helplessness that is so deep, so profound, that it leads us back to ancient wickedness for some way to comprehend it.
Ryan is drowning, curled shrimplike in the middle of a vast sea, a portrait of helplessness and despair.
Anyone who's seen President Trump mock the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford will understand Susanna's anger and helplessness.
But quickly the helplessness of the situation settled in as players did not know what they could do.
Huck has once again fallen for an unsuspecting angel of a brunette, whose helplessness has drawn him in.
"The training shows you how to pull people out of that feeling of helplessness and hopelessness," she said.
Pretending that there isn't one makes you a victim who is voluntarily taking on a mantle of helplessness.
Friends who work in the government on the refugee crisis profess helplessness in the face of the challenge.
Psychiatrists call them transitional objects, comforting possessions that help the young navigate their way from helplessness to independence.
It sweeps up entire families, forcing everyone to claw their way through overwhelming grief, confusion, helplessness, and anger.
We can't lose sight of that, but in all our fury and feelings of helplessness, we sometimes do.
Enter the Dr. Feelgoods, who promise hope against hopelessness, help against helplessness, whose incantations calm, soothe and relieve.
One difference now is a general feeling of helplessness to do anything, except to withdraw from social interactions.
What have we been willing to accept, out of fear, helplessness, a sense that things can't be changed?
Helplessness Blues showcased Pecknold's impressive growth as a songwriter, and it was thrilling to imagine what would follow.
There is often a sense of desperation — of helplessness — as we grapple with the fear of the unknown.
"We remember the victims in their agony and helplessness," he said in a speech in Manhattan in 2008.
Crying out of helplessness is simply part of a day's work in this role and is totally normalized.
As an individual strategy, the device supposes that helplessness might be solved, or at least replaced, with frustration.
For many people some form of activism, an antidote to feeling paralyzed with fear and helplessness, is crucial.
There's a shared feeling of helplessness, a destabilizing fear of not being able to control the vast hinterland.
Patients are taught to identify the situations that trigger negative emotions like sadness, anxiety, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness.
We crave direction; helplessness is truly the ultimate luxury, a philosophy that has by now entered the mainstream.
Within moments of the first announcement, people flocked to shelters, crowding highways in scenes of terror and helplessness.
"I hope the people reading it can overcome the helplessness that we felt," survivor Cameron Kasky, 17, tells PEOPLE.
Milena Ramos, who works in a store at the roadside stop there, recalled the helplessness of the marooned Venezuelans.
"It's just a sheer sense of helplessness when you feel like you're locked on this aircraft," O'Brien told CTV.
He expressed helplessness because he's had to rely on the compassion of others to include Christopher, which hasn't happened.
I was feeling for the first time a sense of helplessness when it came to my appearance and physicality.
That all seems too convenient, given the comparative helplessness and bafflement we actually saw onscreen, from all of them.
There's no standout single track like "White Winter Hymnal" or "Helplessness Blues" — but this album doesn't really need one.
" Weiss argues that "what ought to be a movement for women's empowerment" is becoming "an emblem for female helplessness.
There is in the emptiness of the exhibition space a certain helplessness in the face of these historical forces.
You can imagine the frustration and helplessness you might feel at being pushed to buy all these unnecessary solutions.
The helplessness and frustration is manifesting itself in a multitude of ways and very few of which are constructive.
Though she has been able to get treatment, Bryce described the helplessness he's felt in dealing with her condition.
The first march, taking place during such a time of defeat and helplessness for women, was exciting and empowering.
According to this theory, addiction would serve as a defense against helplessness, trauma, or other emotions that influence us.
This is the Trumpian theater of helplessness, the pose of a prince pretending he was a pauper all along.
"My main motivation for becoming part of this lawsuit was a sense of helplessness," Kibby said in an interview.
"I feel a strong sense of helplessness," said one Chinese University student who only gave his name as Chan.
The prosecutor's office requested charges be changed to abandonment and helplessness, punishable by one to three years in prison.
Such a view reflects the fragile state of the British economy, but the sense of economic helplessness is global.
The doctors and nurses here are aghast at what is taking place, caught between anger and feelings of helplessness.
Politicians then and now "feigned helplessness" when asked to stop white-supremacist violence or changed the subject, Anderson says.
On the shore, dozens of people began to scream in horror and helplessness as they watched the ferry overturn.
It induces helplessness: As soon as we've deciphered the image, we've done precisely what Nauman asked us to do.
"It's important to instill confidence that appropriate measures are being taken and to relieve feelings of helplessness," she said.
"  "After the events of this week across our country, many are feeling a sense of helplessness, uncertainty and fear.
Being a witness to suffering and death gives the same feeling (regardless of the conflict): helplessness and absolute sadness.
The next few hours are a jumble of cab rides, arguments in the street, 911 calls and rising helplessness.
To cast our recurring panics as technophobic reruns is to misidentify what animates them most: Not fear, but helplessness.
The fact that gun control wasn't even considered an option just compounded the sense of helplessness at the conference.
We were beaten over the head with Negan's cruelty, Rick's helplessness, and the overall dissatisfaction of Alexandria's more rebellious residents.
But "The Bells" focuses on their vulnerability and helplessness, turning Daenerys' attack into the behavior of a vengeance-crazed tyrant.
Germany's migrant communities by and large lack the aura of helplessness that can afflict parts of French or Belgian cities.
But the goal of his campaign is less to win over voters than to cure them of their learned helplessness.
That feeling of helplessness may not subside, but at least you'll have tried to help others who are truly powerless. 
"There is a feeling of helplessness like you're trying and trying, you're trying to push against the system," Bonne said.
Occasionally, though, the film makes snips and alterations to the historical record that seem designed to enhance the Lovings' helplessness.
I never wanted to forget that helplessness, because that's what is going to keep driving me to call my representatives.
"They all felt confusion, terror and helplessness," wrote the panel, five lawyers and human rights experts from around Latin America.
His purpose, he says, is to alleviate the syndrome of "learned helplessness" and an entrenched belief that nothing can change.
Blindness in its helplessness reassures the rest of us that that oddball is not an eyesore or a loose cannon.
Watching Republicans stagger from one self-inflicted defeat to another will unleash a pandemic of learned helplessness on the Right.
But since the Camp Fire began, I've been glued to my screen, riddled with anxiety and a sense of helplessness.
I wanted to fight back, take control of my own life, take control of that feeling of helplessness and powerlessness.
After Newtown, the gun buyback felt more urgent, a response to our sense of helplessness at the murder of children.
Veronica is fueled by grief and helplessness after the wrongful death of her son at the hands of the police.
"In helplessness, I think for nations as well as human beings, the emotional response is very important," Mr. Ludin said.
"Many described this time as the darkest period of their lives, dominated by violence, fear and helplessness," Mr. Weber said.
And as studies have found, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can be a contributing factor in the experience of pain.
Here are some of the questions we posed to the contributors: • How do you navigate your own frustration and helplessness?
The conversation offers an intimate glimpse into the panic, the fear and the helplessness that gripped a community that day.
In such circles, the complexity of oligarchy and its Orwellian tentacles induces glazed eyes, if not learned helplessness by design.
"I'll print it off and send it to you," he said, holding Bobby's eye with a kind of ruthless helplessness.
But unlike "84K," where the prevailing tone is helplessness and cautionary horror, "So Lucky" is a shot of angry adrenaline.
Another toll is to psychological well-being, stemming from the sense of helplessness we experience in traffic, and its unpredictability.
This time around, many women are tapping into their feelings of helplessness and fear rather than releasing their long-suppressed rage.
It's that idea of helplessness, that she wouldn't have been in control of her actions or decisions, that Jennifer vehemently rejects.
When I look back, I think the constant pressure to help others, coupled with frequent feelings of helplessness, weighed on me.
Lin and Dewan will be fighting against the fact that people really do have a sense of learned helplessness around privacy.
Creating the world's next masterpiece is a great deal more difficult when there are such feelings of helplessness to contend with.
Culture: At some point, learned helplessness evolves into a superiority complex, stating that crunch is simply how good games are made.
When you are a parent and you see the pain and sense of helplessness of others during these tragedies, it registers.
A blend of distrust in the system, a universal sense of helplessness, and plenty of absurdist humor makes sure of that.
But justice still lacks for a suffering child if that child's total helplessness is the only thing that can move people.
It was hard because, even after I was married, I didn't know how to control this deep helplessness, fear and anger.
But she quickly adds that she doesn't want to know the answer, and her bright professorial composure melts into ashen helplessness.
"I think the striking part is the feeling of helplessness from these girls," said Hussaini Abdu, Plan International's Nigeria country director.
Rather than give into helplessness, I learned to accept my student loan situation and fight tooth and nail to improve it.
Watch the VICE News documentary Blackout: Venezuela's Activist Journalists The sense of helplessness is also striking at the country's medical professionals.
For opponents of suffrage, masculinity, rationality, and power were intrinsically linked, while helplessness, sentiment, and dependence were defining characteristics of femininity.
It is a soggy end to an otherwise tough, troubling film whose images of brutality and helplessness are hard to shake.
"There was a feeling that there was not much that we could do, there was a collective helplessness," Mr. Adler said.
Soon, some of the guards shooed me away, and I went back up to the balcony, shaking with rage and helplessness.
Many of the major treatment modalities for alcoholics start from accepting helplessness over the addiction as the precondition for making changes.
CS: You say your boyfriend feigns helplessness about seeing to his hygiene and cleanliness, but perhaps it's not all an act.
Often associated with small animals, newborns, and many other manifestations of helplessness, sweetness, and vulnerability, how does it derive its power?
Yet they're not gullible, as Ki-taek believes, but are instead defined by cultivated helplessness, the near-infantilization that money affords.
"Qin added that the doctor isolated herself in her apartment without telling her parents, feeling a "sense of helplessness and loneliness.
" Qin added that the doctor isolated herself in her apartment without telling her parents, feeling a "sense of helplessness and loneliness.
A massacre of indigenous people and continued assassinations of community leaders exposed the government's helplessness before security problems in its countryside.
The goal was to assess whether inescapable pain could condition an animal into "learned helplessness," whereby it simply accepts its fate.
"Being polite and kind helps to counteract a lot of the feelings of helplessness and all the negativity in the air."
" That focus on enjoying the present made the "Crack-Up" sessions a refreshing change from the grind that birthed "Helplessness Blues.
One reason the experience of migration and helplessness feels so potent in "Carne y Arena" is because you experience it alone.
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness.
But conversations with locals revealed an ambivalence toward the Americans — and a feeling of helplessness to stop the wheel of history.
We have him starting the scene with such self-doubt and helplessness, in a way that you really see the kid.
Focusing on concrete ways to address the problems you care about can alleviate some of the anxiety and helplessness you may feel.
In a section labelled "My Depression," he posted, in Chinese, diary-like entries relaying his feelings of helplessness, paranoia, alienation, and anxiety.
He'd wondered whether these attributes might help patients with chronic conditions too–those suffering from pain, anxiety and helplessness in daily life.
Lack of support—and even blame—from family, friends and professionals can add to the sense of helplessness caused by the abuse.
Halsey provides a sexy naivety, Phoebe Ryan exudes a tender innocence, Daya fires off a vicious helplessness, XYLO unleashes a mesmerizing exoticism.
Leading non-governmental organizations say the phenomenon is on the rise, fueled by Venezuelans' sense of helplessness in the face of crime.
In biology, cuteness is the purview of babies, puppies, and any other dependent creature, which leverages its endearing helplessness to receive attention.
"When we all come together in community efforts like this, we can find an antidote to the feelings of helplessness," she said.
When I see a tweet that really infuriates me, I feel so much frustration, and so much anger, and so much helplessness.
His late-season blowup at Eleven over her telekinetic tantrum is clearly a badly expressed response to his own helplessness and fear.
He was a functioning member of society and was using these pleas of illness and helplessness to manipulate me into giving in.
There are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families.
Hearing about something terrible happening carries the veneer of the surreal with it, and sometimes the helplessness of distance can go sour.
Sixty years later, he depicted a soldier – someone whose job it is to defend the American flag – in a state of helplessness.
My poor sister sat on the living room couch eating baked beans and cheese, trying desperately to watch television through tearful helplessness.
This tendency, one borne out of helplessness and frustration, is also defined by a certain mindset: that the world owes them success.
The complexities of daily life can be difficult to untangle and comprehend, and the fog of helplessness can seem impenetrable and exhausting.
Anxiety attacks, paranoia, scratching until she bled, even pregnancy tests (while still a virgin), all consumed Klein to the point of helplessness.
A particularly vulnerable target is your local elementary school and playground, because of the perceived helplessness of children — easy prey for terrorists.
Never failing will instill a sense of helplessness in kids, and could set them on path towards anxiety and depression — or entitlement.
My Scottish mother was a teenager during the blitz in World War II. She remembered Glasgow under attack, the feeling of helplessness.
Copious research shows that this kind of dystopian framing backfires, driving people further into denial and helplessness; instead of acting, they freeze.
Break-up grief can also cause feelings of helplessness, and Meaning-Centered Therapy (MCT) can help people make sense of the loss.
But Mr. Fields tried to help others box their way out of their own feelings of helplessness or vulnerability, Mr. Trowe said.
And we need to prepare coming generations to speak up in the moment, rather than be coerced into years of mute helplessness.
Most unbearably, Igor Burov on a bench in a Moscow park, slapping his knees in his helplessness, bereft of a second son.
I remember the awful helplessness of living in refugee camps and praying for America to grant asylum to me and my family.
But in recounting such experiences, these women said they had also been disturbed by a sense of helplessness that pervaded the firm.
"There is a degree of helplessness in not being able to control the consequences when something like this happens," Mr. Sukumar said.
The whole feeling of her painting – its sense of helplessness and blind determination – strikes a very different emotional chord than Guston does.
You encourage them to access their own resourcefulness, counteracting some of the helplessness that leads people to vent in the first place.
Sumaia Kadoumi is a teacher at an Islamic school When I heard about the terrorist attack in New Zealand, I felt helplessness.
And as parents sit back, watching their children grow up without getting the required education, a deeper sense of helplessness seeps in.
It's this embrace of helplessness, of their certainty of their own sexual doom, that makes the more extreme incel communities so dangerous.
Instead there's a learned helplessness about most American infrastructure nowadays, a wrong but certain belief that it's unrealistic to dream of anything better.
Instead of succumbing to feelings of anger and vitriol or, worse, helplessness, we need to step out of our own safe echo chambers.
Which raises a related question: why would role-players want to experience helplessness, fear, and potentially the grief of being rejected and destroyed?
After the sweeping, critically acclaimed Helplessness Blues debuted in 2011 — and earned the band their first Grammy nod — Fleet Foxes took a break.
The courageous Procyon scaling the 25-story building was sometimes scary, sometimes thrilling, sometimes hilarious but always imbued with a feeling of helplessness.
You understand the pain and helplessness that Evie feels with just one of Thomas's sharpened looks or the slightest knitting of her brow.
But for me, it did not shatter my dreams, make me lose faith in justice or reduce me to a state of helplessness.
In 1979, Lenore E. Walker, a psychologist, published "The Battered Woman," which argued that women in domestic-violence situations suffered from learned helplessness.
Aviv gives full voice to the fear, distrust, and helplessness that the family has felt—a voice that likely resonates with many readers.
Eyewitnesses described beatings and detentions by these men, along with the helplessness of not knowing who to hold accountable or who to blame.
My sense of helplessness, underscored by hours spent at the mercy of Los Angeles without a vehicle, was now a self-fulfilling thing.
But this despair can be paralyzing, reinforcing a narrative of helplessness that says the country is on the brink of a complete breakdown.
The learned helplessness of too many Democrats in the face of Republican intransigence is one reason we've ended up in this awful place.
"One word to explain what the government is making us citizens feel is helplessness" said Catherine Lai, who frequently attends the annual march.
This final de-escalation, this profound helplessness, this agony of watching the endless end, is what helps me finally really, unconditionally, love her.
It can be exasperating and it also stokes your sadism, particularly when Vivi's helplessness (she escapes in flip-flops) feels like a contrivance.
Traveling long distances by myself in India sometimes reduced me to fits of childlike helplessness, and butterscotch ice cream was a childlike solution.
We are dying of the grief we share with all too many defendants, the helplessness and desolation on the other side of silence.
We are dying of the grief we share with all too many defendants, the helplessness and desolation on the other side of silence.
Experts say the measures provide short-term relief but do little to dispel the rising sense of helplessness among many Hong Kong residents.
This makes the utter helplessness that later enfolds them all the sadder, as each actor subtly conveys a sudden awareness of brutal aloneness.
I think a lot of it had to do with a feeling of helplessness among people that I heard about quite a bit.
But there is something bleaker still about those same voices countering the Sanders insurgency with abstractions about electability and a familiar learned helplessness.
Boomer showdown over the term, revealing that it's about so much more than an easy insult over technological helplessness or overpriced avocado toast.
But the lessons of how Syria arrived at this moment of catastrophe, and how America arrived at this moment of helplessness, are clear.
The feeling went from sadness to helplessness, and then it seemed to legitimize this fear that Muslims always have—that Islamophobia is real.
"There are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families," she wrote.
" In the wake of these deaths, Lynch said that "Americans across the county are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear.
"A choir, to calm helplessness and absence / A choir of glasses, of nocturnal tunes," the first one reads, quoting Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet.
I had taken her poor pep talks as dismissive or disapproving, but I now realized they were more likely a product of frustrated helplessness.
"There are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families," Swift tweeted.
Many Americans are waking up this morning with a sense of helplessness as we watch the allegedly democratic institutions of the United States unravel.
Again, there's a certain helplessness for the average American because we realize that there's very little we can do to shape this process anymore.
When "The Shrine / An Argument" played, I was reminded of the summer after graduating when I played "Helplessness Blues" on repeat, at full volume.
While the Ghostbusters actress called out many of her detractors on Twitter, she admitted to feeling a sense of helplessness against the internet haters.
As the interrogator's questions tick by, you can see all the anxiety and helplessness of the War on Terror forced onto a single person.
In seeing the news from Manchester this week, the panic and helplessness I felt that day more than a decade ago comes flooding back.
"There are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families," Swift wrote.
Such indecision—some might call it helplessness—has come to define Europe's reaction to Trump, despite its leaders' claims of standing up to him.
" As the parent of a college-age son, when Granderson sees "the pain and sense of helplessness of others during these tragedies, it registers.
But this gambler's mindset can often belie a deeper sense of fear and helplessness in the face of a daunting and unknowable technical dilemma.
The helplessness he felt towards the changes around him reflected in the hopeless struggle of people against forces that are far beyond their control.
I should have kept walking, dragging my helplessness like any other woman groped in the middle of the street, but I decided to react.
He brings along a suspicious looking doctor who "sews up" the girl as Ajji looks on with an increasing sense of helplessness and anger.
When an economic system or government is responsible for personal harm, those affected can feel profoundly helpless, and cover that helplessness with self-criticism.
CIA records indicate that these proposals were based on the idea that such conditions would lead [Zubaydah] to develop a sense of 'learned helplessness.
Everyone: There's so much anger and helplessness flooding my thoughts, I worry that soon there won't be any room for other emotions, like dread.
Though Martin tried to avoid learning the details of the massacre, she became overwhelmed by old feelings of grief, anxiety and, above all, helplessness.
For many artists from the region, art is a way to express a sense of helplessness, and for others a voice for self-recognition.
The novel's political intrigue and corruption, and the sadness that accompanies the sense of helplessness in the face of a great evil, is prescient.
As he finally exits the store and turns away from his friend, his smile fades, and a sense of helplessness washes over his face.
Eventually, they all chose to move forward with the story as a way to counteract the helplessness that had paralyzed them throughout their careers.
Helplessness, fear, ridicule, and strength are intertwined through this humorous but unnerving painting that both showcases and undermines the severity of terrorism in Indonesia.
That sense of helplessness is exacerbated when there is little faith that government officials are getting infrastructure ready for quakes and storms, he said.
The pair aimed to produce "learned helplessness" in the detainees, breaking them down so completely that they could no longer resist an interrogator's questions.
"The worst part was an overlying feeling of helplessness, like no one was advocating for us and our safety or well being," he says.
Zefzafi, who himself was involved in politics in his youth, evoked an Arabic proverb to express his feelings of helplessness over his son's arrest.
With or without him, some observers have already condemned his government to helplessness, and train their sights on the next presidential election in 2018.
Benioff and Weiss make sure to emphasize the women and children caught in the fire and focus on their terror and helplessness as they burn.
This mix of helplessness and fear, evident among parents across the country, has prompted China's rulers to make an unusually direct response to the scandal.
They often forsake big scary reveals, investing instead in a more general sense of helplessness and the notion that events are beyond the characters' control.
It alludes to the medical euphemism of "homosexual cancer" when talking about AIDS and depicts the episodes of helplessness that Prior feels without a cure.
"The turmoil around multi-role helicopters means chaos and helplessness and harm for the Polish army," Civic Platform MP Kazimierz Plocke said during Thursday's debate.
How do you remain open to this image, become haunted by it, without finding a way to protect yourself from its presentation of utter helplessness?
For years, therapists have been asking people who experienced trauma to talk about their experience in detail and express their feelings of helplessness and fear.
The second half tears it apart slowly and painfully, emphasizing Tom's helplessness and Isabel's pitiless selfishness, which is starting to look like Cianfrance's favorite theme.
"Anger is a poison to democratic politics, and it is all the worse when fueled by a lurking fear and sense of helplessness," Nussbaum writes.
These small acts of armchair resistance are a release valve for pent-up feelings of helplessness, despair and fury with the Trump administration, Fisch says.
Her writing can occasionally bring to mind Michel Houellebecq's in its deadpan deflation of consumer society and our helplessness in the face of its predations.
Now there's a feeling of helplessness that's particularly hard to swallow for those who indulged in the national chauvinism of lazy Greeks and financial imperialism.
Uncertainty about whether a parent will return, lack of contact with other loved ones, and a feeling of helplessness all exacerbate this type of trauma.
As the RA at the Latino Living Center on campus, Reuning says that the stress of the situation has led to a sense of helplessness.
The lawyers for the Crutcher family visibly bristled, perhaps with a sense of helplessness, or with nagging regret that they could have perhaps done more.
The American Psychological Association has even coined a term for the feelings of "loss, helplessness, and frustration" people experience in response to the catastrophe: Ecoanxiety.
But instead of the feelings of helplessness and confusion that reigned two years ago after Trump beat Hillary Clinton, they know now what to do.
Confined to her grandmother's home for so long, Ms. Chang has turned to her art as an outlet for the helplessness and resentment she feels.
Fang says she was inspired to take the classes by a viral Chinese social media post that highlighted the anxiety and helplessness of old people.
"Disliking Ivanka Trump or avoiding anything that seems like an endorsement for her is a way to express and release that unhappiness and helplessness," Krosnick added.
In other situations, lesser degrees of pain—particularly chronic pain—can prove unbearable, in part because it is experienced in the setting of helplessness and hopelessness.
"It's devastating because, of course, you always see your spouse before you and to not have anything, it was just a feeling of helplessness," Scott explained.
American Trial and its portrayal of the broken American legal system seems so real that it doesn't just convey Snipe Garner's helplessness but also amplifies it.
Yet, contrary to the usual picture of misery, squalor and helplessness, the film depicts residents setting up community businesses and initiatives that rendered life more bearable.
"These cases show the utter helplessness of foreign businessmen on the island of Cuba when they fall out of favor with the regime," says Garcia-Diaz.
Be concerned about the eroticization of female helplessness which surrounds us culturally, but go home and do what you like in bed with a willing partner.
CNN's Van Jones on Tuesday called the results of the midterm elections "heartbreaking," saying he believes Democrats may still have a feeling of "helplessness" come Wednesday.
Mexico: The ambush that killed nine people, coming closely on the heels of two other prominent episodes of violence, laid bare the government's helplessness against violence.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Scores of people stand packed in the cramped quarters of the Treeq Alsika Migrant Detention Center in Tripoli, helplessness etched across their faces.
Lydia is, Eddie notes, a beauty, but her helplessness disgusts him, and he resents her for taking his wife and older daughter's attention away from him.
Fleet Foxes dropped off the map after the release of 2011's Helplessness Blues, which peaked at No. 4 on the 2011 Billboard 200 albums chart.
"People who are ready to come out are going to be pushed back to where they used to be, faced with pressure and helplessness," he said.
It's not in the legitimate discussion over real national security threats, but in the relentless onslaught of helplessness being blared across the news and social media.
Martin was disgusted at his father's helplessness, which spurred Noah to tell him the Big Secret, then tell him to go to school for Helen's sake.
I feel like it&aposs a sign of maturity that I can afford that monthly payment, and that I&aposve taken this step out of helplessness.
I had recently learned about the concept of learned helplessness, where a history of avoiding a particular topic leads to a sense of powerlessness or aversion.
Now, Gonzalez says he's been suffering "severe emotional distress" as a result -- having emotional breakdowns, stomach pain, lack of sleep, feelings of helplessness, sadness and more.
This learned helplessness reflects the tricky legacy of Robert Bork, an American scholar and judge who wrote "The Antitrust Paradox", a deeply influential book published in 1978.
"The psychological responses to climate change such as conflict avoidance, fatalism, fear, helplessness and resignation are growing," said Clayton, a psychology professor at the College of Wooster.
There's a feeling that many Americans have become familiar with in the wake of major mass shooting incidents: A mix of horror, shock, bitter resignation, and helplessness.
Getting involved in the #MeToo or the Time's Up movements, for example, could help alleviate a sense of dread and helplessness brought on by the Kavanaugh hearings.
There's a reason why there have been no mobs on Wall Street since the Occupy movement dissipated, and it is, I think, sadly, learned helplessness and despair.
And speaking of borders, fake passports, and Little America springing up in Toronto, this episode's clearly trying to capture the strain and helplessness of being a refugee.
But what you should be most worried about is despair, learned helplessness, and the apparent undying enmity between the best and the good in the security world.
First, while Americans overwhelmingly express concern with the security of their data and devices, we must address their sense of helplessness when it comes to protecting themselves.
" Feminist site The Mary Sue also criticized the image saying, "This poster reinforces a narrative that commandeers and reduces women into a position of helplessness through violence.
Because like C.S. Lewis, they will be filled with the knowledge of their helplessness and need, and they will turn to the only real source of help.
My father saw the complexity of the conflict from up close: the FARC's capacity for cruelty, but also the helplessness, if not innocence, of some young fighters.
The mugging and the visit from the police, along with the graphic images they lay before her, send Maggie into a downward spiral of fear and helplessness.
But more often that strength felt brittle, as if it concealed a deeper helplessness, white-hot rage that had found no satisfaction in its exercise of power.
Over the next six tweets, Steak-umm went on to consider the toll of student debt, helplessness/loneliness, internet-induced isolation, and depression on the millennial psyche.
Caught in the act of ordering a prostitute, Hector is gruff and to the point, furious at his total helplessness in the face of his invisible tormenters.
They based their strategies in part on the theory of "learned helplessness," a phrase coined by the American psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman in the late 1960s.
It was that frustration and sense of helplessness after the breach, as well as the company's response, that first motivated many to pursue Equifax in local court.
Many of us are struggling to ward off learned helplessness, the depressed, withdrawn state created when terrible things keep happening and you feel powerless to stop them.
"The notion that this was done by parents increases a child's helplessness and hopelessness," said Nora J. Baladerian, a Los Angeles psychologist who often treats traumatized individuals.
The helplessness that some teams inevitably feel against the LeBrons and Kawhis targeting their stars is virtually certain to come up when Silver addresses the news media.
This relationship can be marked by confusion, anxiety, and helplessness, all a result of the overwhelming and complex medical information that must be understood, among other factors.
Rats in sugar withdrawal are more likely to show passive behaviours (like floating) than active behaviours (like trying to escape) when placed in water, suggesting feelings of helplessness.
The graphic depicts "common" mental reactions to the news surrounding the outbreak of the coronavirus, such as anxiety, helplessness and xenophobia, or prejudice against people from other countries.
In cases where the persecutor is a non-government actor, the applicant must show the government condoned the behavior or demonstrated a complete helplessness to protect the victim.
Elements, due out February 24, deals directly with the Syrian crisis, translating Almadani's grief and feelings of helplessness into complex soul and funk compositions full of profound emotion.
When something like Saturday's attack happens, it can be easy to indulge the feelings of helplessness by staying glued to the TV. But this can make anxiety worse.
The cruel cycle of mass shootings is basically routine now, which is truly horrifying: the rage, the helplessness, the thoughts and prayers, the online backlash, the political posturing.
That's why the child resorted to the only thing she knew, an emotional plea born of helplessness in a sea of chaos that seems to have no shore.
We can go beyond thoughts and prayers, and the misbegotten sense that mass burnings must echo mass shootings in their random destruction and our helplessness to stop them.
" Bari Weiss, writing in The New York Times, complained that Grace's story transformed "what ought to be a movement for women's empowerment into an emblem for female helplessness.
Her memoir illuminates the many ways in which legal and criminal institutions succeed in deepening the sense of violation, helplessness and anguish felt by the survivors of rape.
"Mitchell and Jessen claimed to be experts on 'learned helplessness,' a state in which someone has been tortured to the point where all resistance is gone," Laguardia said.
Studies of children who grew up during that era show reactions such as concern, fear, anxiety, helplessness and a feeling of lack of power and purpose in life.
"The paralysis you feel right now -- the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen -- isn't real," Connecticut Sen.
"This overexposure can cause increased fear, anxiety and helplessness, particularly in already psychologically vulnerable populations," said Daniel Antonius, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University at Buffalo.
Her second memoir, "Sisters," was a sharp-edged portrait of sibling rivalry that was also, in a sidelong manner, about the helplessness of watching your parents drift apart.
Similarly, you're feeling ... I think there is, and the Pew research shows, there is a feeling of hopelessness, or helplessness, among the American consumer about their internet experience.
Karen goes from brief denial in the hospital to full-on rage at her helplessness to bittersweet resignation that this Rosario-less existence is just her life now.
Moss, whose gift for speaking volumes with purposeful stares is well-documented on "The Handmaid's Tale," perfectly captures the sense of invasion Cecelia feels, and at first, helplessness.
He saw the winds shifting from Democratic to Republican long before most others, and he switched allegiance as the party of L.B.J. and Ann Richards lapsed into helplessness.
"Spellbound" is the story of one woman up against a wall of male authority, as well as male helplessness, in the form of the mentally tormented Gregory Peck.
But the country taken to be the world's oldest modern democracy leads the free world in its helplessness before the dissolution of its most cherished beliefs and values.
We've reached a weird, quiet agreement that the most potent force in our politics is, for the moment, a stew of unease, fear, rage, grief, helplessness and humiliation.
"While the event calls upon people to Scream Helplessly, we want to convert that sense of helplessness into resistance, into action, and maybe even into optimism," Schulman added.
The Empire star said that she was dealing with mood swings, heart palpitations and feelings of helplessness, and about two years ago she realized that she needed help.
Insisting that autistic people behave in ways that they are unable to can lead to feelings of learned helplessness, self-defeating thoughts and behaviors and, eventually, social withdrawal.
The best horror movies work because they evoke the things that scare us most — not specifically monsters or murderers, but universal fears like helplessness, isolation, violence, and the unknown.
The image of the World Trade Center collapsing became pervasive as footage of the attacks was replayed over and over on television, ultimately becoming synonymous with fear and helplessness.
Instead, the game is an anti-war title primarily through its aesthetics: the sights, sounds, and overall tone of helplessness created on the ground of its massive multiplayer matches.
When the breathless crush of crisis and action is over, there's time to recognize the enormity of the damage that has been done and your helplessness to repair it.
Any family member who has desperately searched hospitals for a loved one knows the overwhelming sense of helplessness that can come from butting your head against the privacy wall.
The state of information security has been so dire for so long that learned helplessness has caused many people to conclude, nihilistically and wrongly, that it's not even possible.
The findings point to a link between nightmares and NSSI behaviors, which prompted the researchers to explore ways to help people combat the helplessness that bad dreams can provoke.
I was doing a lot of field recordings, which is where you hear a lot of those voice recordings throughout that connect with this feeling of helplessness, sort of.
We also liked the way that the weight of that heavy black rectangle looming above her seemed to nicely capture the sense of helplessness many of these teens feel.
The majority of voters want a check on this administration, but the Republican Party doesn't care; it's beholden to a minority that delights in the helplessness of fellow citizens.
If Democrats take the House in the November midterms — which the model of the statistics website FiveThirtyEight gives them about a 70 percent chance of doing — that helplessness ends.
Are you really going to say that all those alcoholics who come out and say, "I'm an alcoholic and I am addicted," have just developed a learned helplessness problem?
Most of the emotions we experience in dreams, as the Finnish neuroscientist Antti Revonsuo noted in 973, are negative; the most common ones include fear, helplessness, anxiety and guilt.
This attitude, I've argued, had major negative consequences, not just for research, but for policy: it helped cultivate a sense of learned helplessness in the face of mass unemployment.
Fear, rage, disgust, helplessness, a sardonic amusement and a sorrow beyond tears — these responses ebb and flow in a seemingly unending cycle during the show's time-bending 80 minutes.
Those techniques were supposed to induce "a state of learned helplessness" in the detainee, who would then supposedly be putty in his interrogator's hands, according to the Senate report.
While I recognize how disturbing that might seem upon first reading, I implore you to consider my perspective and understand the helplessness I have always felt towards this circumstance.
For half the country, this means increased rates of depression and anxiety along with feelings of despair and helplessness and, I imagine, increased levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.
But he felt the same helplessness, the same nagging doubt, as he had at the 2016 Masters, where he lost a five-stroke lead in the final nine holes.
In the week since the Women's March, Trump's executive orders had confirmed liberals' worst fears of his intentions and the helplessness of congressional Democrats to stand in his way.
Uncertainty, helplessness and frustration are also prominent features of the Kammerspiele's epic production of "Wartesaal," based on the 1940 novel "Exil" by the German novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger.
Much like those in the recovery movement, we acknowledge our helplessness and dependence on God to forgive us, and to give us the power to become more like Jesus.
Brazilian anthropologist Spensy Kmitta Pimentel has described the events as "protest suicides" that come as "a result of an experience of helplessness" that has become common to the Guaraní.
These centers—which other interviews and research lead me to believe typify the current addiction treatment standard in the United States—reinforce that same helplessness van der Kolk warns against.
It's a tough time to be American, and Schutz's new paintings capture the emotions of helplessness, self-recrimination, and disbelief like little else I've seen over the past several months.
What makes it fresh and real again is the way Turner experiences it, as a growing awareness of his own helplessness, and a growing conviction that he can't bear it.
Unlike many forms of bondage within BDSM, shibari isn't usually meant to foster a sense of helplessness and humiliation for the person who's tied up (which many submissive people desire).
American juries and judges, far from Sudan and not subject to Islamic law, regularly paint abused women as scheming assassins, their actions motivated by money or anger, rather than helplessness.
The work has been interpreted as an allegory of Wood's sense of helplessness in resisting the temptations of the sophisticated but decadent lifestyle into which he was drawn in Paris.
They face the helplessness of having strangers judge their loved one not on who he was or what he meant to his family but on a few seconds of video.
They force you to reconcile your own helplessness in the face of such brutal injustice, and the terrifying reality that it could happen to you, or someone you hold dear.
That same sense of helplessness these remarkable women felt before #MeToo went viral — where they felt silenced by their oppressors — is known all too well by child sexual abuse survivors.
While the album shares some thematic bent with the existential musings and naked self-examination that marked 2011's Helplessness Blues, it's light years away from where Pecknold started out.
"I have been suffering from absent-mindedness, amnesia, inability to memorize, depression, helplessness, apathy, loss of interest in the future, slow thinking, and anxiety," Mr. Masri wrote in an email.
While the album shares some thematic bent with the existential musings and naked self-examination that marked 2011's Helplessness Blues, it's light years away from where Pecknold started out.
This had been the worst part about distance, the helplessness I felt when he was anxious or sad, as he often was, when nothing I could say would comfort him.
Anytime I started thinking about the larger number, I'd lose focus and those feelings of helplessness would take over again, so I had to focus on the one at hand.
"All the new-mother books and websites and mommy blogs in the world couldn't ease the helplessness I felt whenever Vale's blue eyes filled with tears," she wrote in Guideposts.
For many liberals, the outcome of the election has filled them with a crippling sense of helplessness and horror; despite taking action, they feel essentially voiceless in their own country.
It's a scene that captures the wrenching sense of helplessness that pervades this intensely acted production, which opened on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
We know from psychological research that a steady diet of news about violence, corruption and incompetence leads to increased fear, learned helplessness, hopelessness, cynicism, depression, isolation, hostility, contempt and anxiety.
Because while its lyrics tell a story of confusion and helplessness, it's also a full on slutdropping, drink-spilling banger of the sort we've come to know and love from Rihanna.
"I called my daughter and son-in-law in the US to try to contact them, but they too expressed helplessness in the face of the clampdown on communication," she said.
"There are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels for the victims in Vegas and their families," the star said in a message posted to Twitter.
"What's coming up for me, thinking about all these big forces we're up against, is a sense of anxiety and helplessness, like I felt before I quit Insta," one man said.
Feelings of guilt and helplessness are common symptoms of depression and, like Delevingne, many people who suffer from the mental illness have a hard time asking for help because of it.
When the harm is at the hands of a non-governmental actor, the applicant must show that the government condoned the behavior or demonstrated a complete helplessness to protect the victim.
"To create a torture program with a scientific veneer, defendants drew on experiments from the 1960s in which researchers taught dogs 'helplessness' by subjecting them to uncontrollable pain," the lawsuit states.
Whether primitive (gunpowder) or cutting-edge (unmanned aerial vehicles) in the wrong hands, technology can empower bad actors and put our society at risk, creating a sense of helplessness and frustration.
"Some of the hallmark features of depression are feelings of helplessness and worthlessness and a loss of hope for the future," says Chloe Carmichael, PhD, a psychologist in New York City.
And right there in the quiet of night, working people of modest means and one of the most powerful men in America shared the same intimate and immediate sense of helplessness.
The tenor of the event, and the conversations its founders hope to inspire, are meant to combat the feeling of helplessness that can come with the deluge of negative environmental news.
"With that vulnerability comes immense generosity: good folks who will recognize your helplessness and recognize that you need assistance in one form or another and offer it in spades," he wrote.
Indeed, you can trigger depressive symptoms in mice by repeatedly exposing them to a noxious stimulus, such as an electric shock, from which they can't escape–a phenomenon called learned helplessness.
But coupled with Webber's injury the following year, it definitely creates a sense of helplessness, like we've somehow angered the basketball gods and are no longer allowed to have nice things.
Government inspectors and veterinarians show up to monitor the killing of the animals and the cleaning of the barns, and their calm, implacable authority only increases the sense of helplessness and devastation.
But when a sibling dies suddenly, there's helplessness, regret (perhaps the last words expressed during a fight that day were, "I hate you," because that's what kids do), and oftentimes survivor's guilt.
It was a stunning display of defiance that demonstrated just how deeply the population fears the encroaching influence of Beijing, and Hong Kongers' increasing feeling of desperation and helplessness to stop it.
It's a proposal to a problem that seems to stem from tech companies' lack of urgency, but rather than remedy a growing issue, it just puts on display government officials' panicked helplessness.
"And there were times where it felt like there was helplessness from my part, I didn't know what I could do, or how I could be of the best support," Zak said.
But Charlottesville was merely one incident, and there have been countless more that have prompted similar feelings of helplessness, from the splitting up of immigrant families to the near-death of Obamacare.
Maybe groped is the more physically accurate word, but given the nature of the violation and the feelings of anger and helplessness it kicked off, I can't help considering it an assault.
This can lead to learned helplessness, Neo said, which is when you believe you have no control over the outcome and accept that you're always going to feel bad and worn out.
Yet the complexity and drama of Watson's gorgeous work here is life's as well: Sometimes physical realities expand us, sometimes trap; sometimes heroism lies in combating our helplessness, sometimes in accepting it.
Laguerre created Nous Toutes Harcelement ["We Are All Harassed"] in August 2018 as an answer to the helplessness she felt for other women unable to rely on the law to achieve justice.
In a survey of Hong Kong residents about SARS, nearly two-thirds of respondents expressed helplessness, with nearly half saying their mental health had severely or moderately deteriorated because of the epidemic.
One consequence of our helplessness in face of the pandemic is our greater sociability, a yearning for warmth and succor, the realization that we need others, that we cannot hack it alone.
The best points of comparison throughout might be Helplessness Blues' tortured and explosive centerpiece "The Shrine/An Argument" or the expansive and complicated English folk found on Roy Harper's 1971 album Stormcock.
"There was just a deep sense of helplessness I think we all shared," said Robyn Carter, a former nonprofit executive in Boston and one of the Four Musketeers on the Williams campus.
What he sees in the files and thousands of note cards is a man battling his own helplessness, grasping at any shred of evidence, even the most ephemeral of things — the words.
From what I have observed, this phenomenon does undoubtedly, subject to certain conditions and combined with certain circumstances awaken an uncanny feeling, which recalls that sense of helplessness sometimes experienced in dreams.
You and your husband should consider it your central goal to share your feelings with one another, even and especially the difficult feelings: ones of helplessness, confusion, guilt, depression and even rage.
It was a sense of helplessness, the recognition that we are at the mercy of an industry that makes money off our data, treats us with disdain and answers to no one.
"He started off from this foreign place, discerned the feeling of alienation everywhere he went, and comprehended what loneliness and helplessness meant," as one of the essays in the book put it.
Emotions such as helplessness, fear, horror, guilt, and shame, perceived lack of support, perceived life threat, family history of mental illness, personal history of mental illness and prior trauma are also predictors.
And it encourages a kind of learned helplessness in which you'll do almost anything the game asks you to do — even if it's optional — in hopes that it will move you forward.
But a commodity rout and policymakers' apparent helplessness in the face of sluggish world growth is also weighing on sentiment, with London's FTSE 100 equity index set for its fourth straight monthly fall.
As Mr Gudkov notes, television propaganda exploits the syndrome of "learned helplessness"—a psychological condition where people who have been repeatedly abused give up control and start believing that "nothing depends on us".
"It's just a sheer sense of like, helplessness, when you feel like you're locked on this aircraft, and you have no connection to the outside world," O'Brien said in an interview with CTV.
Reynolds is such a petty tyrant, so seemingly incapable of treating women with any kind of respect, that his eventual buy-in to his poisoning and helplessness makes a certain kind of sense.
As noted, Aronofsky has somewhat given the game away in his comments about the movie -- citing a "primordial soup of angst and helplessness" that "poured out" of him, giving birth to the concept.
"Nurturing talent provides an avenue for accomplishment as opposed to helplessness which is associated with the onset of drug use," said Hilton Nyamukapa, program coordinator for the Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network.
If the public is to prepare for the grim prospect of rationed care, then officials should speak in immediate personal terms, and give things to do that increase safety and reduce helplessness: e.g.
The plan, conceived by James Mitchell, a psychologist working on contract for the C.I.A., was to induce learned helplessness in humans by combining an individually tailored regimen of torture techniques with environmental manipulation.
Harvey's havoc shook the city to its core, but like the rushing waters that came before, that fear and helplessness receded in the hearts and minds of Houstonians — and they got to work.
Ms. Cheuk, 27, said that the ball's inevitable failure to break through the glass was intended to evoke the feeling of helplessness that she said was now familiar to many young Hong Kongers.
The sense of helplessness is one reason the number of families with children attempting to cross into the U.S. has also been spiking even as overall illegal migration hovers near a two-decade low.
The limited communication between those on the inside and those on the outside has resulted in confusion and a sense of helplessness among some relatives, as rumors and misinformation get passed off as fact.
M. Adam Ferguson's images of Manus are claustrophobic — you get a glimpse of the infuriating helplessness of being stranded on an island in legal limbo, trapped far from family and increasingly, far from hope.
It's hard to miss these periods of shedding, and the trauma of seeing your hair fall or noticing your scalp widen can bring out a range of emotions, from helplessness to just plain confusion.
They even had a handy list of ways to handle these feelings, such as avoiding the news, ditching any sense of helplessness by making sure to vote and imagining the candidates on the toilet.
Deep was able to tell his tale in detail, recounting his anger, despair and helplessness as they worked round the clock to make up to 1,000 bricks a day for 100 Indian rupees($1.56).
If you've been on a plane in the past ten to 15 years, then you've at least had a small taste of the utter helplessness that comes from dealing with these faceless, unaccountable corporations.
As Venus and Neptune oppose, people crave love and reach out for affection—they're also swimming against a strong current of fear, helplessness, and insecurity, seeking any way to escape including sex or drugs.
Emotionally, being without the protection of a parent in a chaotic environment leads young children to experience prolonged states of unmodulated helplessness and terror which can causes long term damage to their developing brains.
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe, which Chifunyise served from 2004 to 2008, was "enveloped with intense anguish, sadness and complete helplessness" at the passing of the veteran playwright, according to a Facebook post.
And the power of Mr. Brizé's film — and of Ms. Chemla's quietly volcanic performance — lies partly in the way ordinary disasters erupt in Jeanne's life, at once challenging her passivity and emphasizing her helplessness.
Sean Carvajal — whose ability to find the helplessness within posturing masculinity won him a 33 Obie Award for Stephen Adly Guirgis's "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" — stars as Manuel, opposite Maribel Martinez as Johaira.
It is curious that a movie set against a backdrop of black resistance and rebellion — however inchoate and self-destructive its expression may have been — should become a tale of black helplessness and passivity.
It seems likely that a sense of political frustration or helplessness also contributes to a political situation in which people talk, joke, and even act on the idea of solving political differences with violence.
And yet, these latest iterations of Trump's queasy, woe-is-me appropriation of victimhood (or as the journalist Jacob Brogan put it for The New Republic in 2017, his invocation of abject helplessness) aren't surprising.
The composition, the low quality of my grandmother's outdated flip phone, the barren walls, and the look of helplessness in her posture elicited such a gut wrenching reaction the first time I saw the photo.
For all the wrinkles and riffs in between, that sense of helplessness remains a powerful, tension-filled hook, even if Roberts has to jerk the audience around more than a bit to keep them dangling.
The analogy became explicit in "Learned Helplessness in Rats" (19733), an installation that consists of a Plexiglas maze with videos of wandering rats and a teen-age boy with a drum set, thunderously whaling away.
But in addition to trying to reckon with the new normal of constant helplessness, there's a great deal more on his mind: For the first time in 15 years, Dave Longstreth is going it alone.
If the stars might offer an explanation for the state of the world, could they also suggest a means to help us cope with the cultural overload and the helplessness so many of us feel?
But there is also a whiff of helplessness in his telling about the degradation of truth and of people's trust in the press, neither of which is really a matter of law or legal policy.
The most surprising thing I learned about this issue is that going public has one unexpected side effect: It gives patients a sense of control over their lives at a time of often intense helplessness.
And while some of their recent works are more overtly political than others, many are infused with a sense of helplessness toward what is widely seen here as the city's increasing subjugation to Beijing's authoritarianism.
This helplessness recalls the 1930s when the League of Nations, the great hope for security co-operation in the aftermath of the first world war, proved ineffectual in the face of Japanese, German and Italian aggression.
In espousing the idea that human belief in God arises out of a childish feeling of helplessness when faced with a daunting universe, the series also bears significant traces of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic reading of religion.
"The long school closures in the valley are causing major disruptions in young people's educational and professional development, producing feelings of insecurity, helplessness, and demoralization," said Haley Duschinski, an anthropologist at Ohio University specializing in Kashmir.
But Ms. Agresta certainly stole the show — her dying moments imbued with both a sweet resolve and a vulnerability that evoked the helplessness of Turandot so vividly conveyed by Ms. Stemme as the ice maiden succumbs.
Weiss says Babe's article "transforms what ought to be a movement for women's empowerment into an emblem for female helplessness", but fails to acknowledge the involuntary paralysis that many women (and men) experience in such situations.
Here I am, at a place that radiates optimism, that flaunts the raw power of human technology that was built to explore the infinite, only to learn of man's essential helplessness in the face of nature.
"There have been issues throughout because of this sense of not knowing what comes next — it's helplessness," said Mariam Khokhar, the head of the Organization for Migration office in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province.
Despite the fact that our co-habitation was a total misery for us both, my lingering memory of her will always be her reflection in that mirror—all the resentment, power-play, and helplessness washed away.
"Coming out of captivity, there's often a sense of helplessness, a sense of bewilderment, and really being overwhelmed at coming back at a society that's changed and a society where you have changed," Dr. Akilu said.
At least 119 men moved through the C.I.A. jails, where the interrogations were designed to disrupt the senses and increase helplessness — factors that researchers decades earlier had said could make people more susceptible to psychological harm.
Borodin's String Quartet No. 2, which received a burnished reading by the Parker Quartet on Saturday, is an example of the lyricism and freshness this approach could produce, but also demonstrates its stretches of harmonic helplessness.
Many said they began to deteriorate mentally as a result of working in a constant state of hyper-vigilance and helplessness — even when they could anticipate attacks, there was nothing they could do to protect themselves.
If you'd like to and are able to support their efforts as you navigate social distancing from home — during which we can all feel a sense of helplessness — we've rounded up the brands giving back, ahead.
The bottom line: Young people are not only expressing their frustrations and helplessness over school shootings through walk-outs or marches, but also utilizing small videos and comment threads as a different form of communal expression.
" When I asked Altman about this critique, he said, "I absolutely could do a better job at managing the organization—it was my chief weakness at Loopt, and I still have some learned helplessness about it.
Kanye West's art has always been a monument at the intersection of blackness and masculinity in America, a testament of the jibing surges of power and helplessness that being a man with black skin can entail.
Whether calling your representative to make your opinion heard, marching at a rally, organizing for candidates, and/or running for office, being an activist at whatever level feels comfortable can help kick away that feeling of helplessness.
Their helplessness and confusion makes Belko Experiment feel like Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods, but with less humor, and without the peeks behind the antagonists' screen to shape and humanize the story.
Noting that it can take an entire day for a lawyer or advocate to travel from Atlanta to the Lumpkin detention center for a meeting, Shahshahani says that the facility's remote location compounds detainees' feeling of helplessness.
It means that we're incompatible with learned helplessness and despair, because for all of our (many) flaws, ours is still essentially an industry of hope, and one which actually builds and contributes thing rather than siphoning value.
VS: When fans think about all this, I think they often arrive at a place of helplessness Like, we can't do anything, so we might as well pretend it's not a problem and enjoy what we have.
But unless and until the Democratic electorate can be given license to support what it supports, each failure of the "electability" paradigm will only be taken as proof of the need to retreat further into learned helplessness.
It's this apparent coldness that sets her off drastically from Sandra, the heroine of the Dardennes' last feature, Two Days, One Night, played by Marion Cotillard, who earned an Oscar nomination for her overheated performance of helplessness.
" This curious military definition of the word, with its emphasis on receptivity, resonates with Sharif's mindset in undertaking the book: "Until now," she explains, "All my Muse's poetry has been harmless:/ American and diplomatic: a learned helplessness.
There is a real learned helplessness to this: Americans just take it for granted that this is the way things work, it is the way things have always worked, it is the way things always will work.
"[Art Responders was a way] for myself and others to share art in all mediums, as well as links and commentary, mainly as a remedy for feelings of anger and helplessness," Stenvoll-Wells tells The Creators Project.
Swinton, who delivers a nuanced performance in "The Souvenir"—with an Hermès scarf tied under her chin, like the Queen, and a clucking helplessness—recalls the young Hogg as a quiet, watchful presence in the bohemian swirl.
"As professionals, most of us try to talk people out of doing such a drastic thing, because it's coming from a place of helplessness and not being able to change other aspects of your life," she said.
"We have got to think about how we can bridge the gap between helplessness and hope," Ms. Harris said at a campaign rally in Houston on Saturday, where she unveiled early portions of the teacher pay plan.
It starts out very clunky, with a scene that feels ripped straight from a rom-com made decades ago, as women complain about their husbands and the general helplessness of men while sitting in a hair salon.
As "the Kid" found in a cage in an abandoned wing of Shawshank — and now Deaver's newest client — he's intense in a way that could be read as helplessness and fear, or as a manifestation of pure evil.
That was Paeyton's first seizure when she was one-year-old, and it was the beginning of a four-year-long odyssey of doctor visits, medications, sudden seizures, hospitalizations and near constant worry and helplessness for their family.
There's a clawing sense of helplessness, a sinking feeling that no matter what good Cage does in Harlem, if he arouses even one blush of suspicion, New York City's entire police force will be determined to kill him.
Whether it was Andrew Lincoln slobbering all over himself in an attempt to convey Rick's feeling of helplessness, or Lauren Cohan contorting her face into yet another expression of anguish to show Maggie's devastation, it all felt grotesque.
This helplessness is magnified when one comes to learn that the children are being held in what can only be regarded as incarceration, including the use of cages and with adults not allowed to offer hugs or comfort.
Dean Corren Burlington, Vt. Taking Care James Marcus's recollections of his father's final months illustrate the pain, the poignancy, and the all-around helplessness of witnessing the suffering and decline of a loved one ("Blood Relations," March 11th).
Dystopia used to be a fiction of resistance; it's become a fiction of submission, the fiction of an untrusting, lonely, and sullen twenty-first century, the fiction of fake news and infowars, the fiction of helplessness and hopelessness.
"I'm concerned that the loneliness and helplessness will kill her quicker than the virus," said Melissa West, whose 95-year-old mother-in-law lives in a nursing home in Seattle that has remained untouched by the virus.
Senator Julia Salazar, who won her seat in Brooklyn last year, echoed that, saying that "the feeling of helplessness and just lack of access to the decision-making process," was discouraging, a sentiment she also expressed on Twitter.
Klein also described what she called the manic defence, which is a denial of helplessness and dependence on others by delusions of power, grandeur and self-sufficiency, and is expressed in the attitudes of triumph, control and contempt.
As long as we live in a patriarchal world (and we do), we are living with the consequences of how men feel allowed to express themselves: their power, of course, but also their fear and helplessness and sorrow.
And while there's no cure for the heightened anxiety that's all but inevitable in these stressful, unprecedented times, there are ways to smarten your approach to dealing with it that can meaningfully reduce your overall sense of helplessness.
Would-be defenders of the poor and powerless spend a lot of time and effort "denying that people bear responsibility for the way their life has turned out," because helplessness seems the sole condition for granting them assistance.
But I wondered whether we also needed to understand the impulses that drive a doctor's relationship with an addicted patient: the failure of our credibility, our bizarre circumlocutions, our helplessness, the chronic relapses into self-doubt and disappointment.
"And there were times where it felt like there was helplessness from my part, I didn't know what I could do, or how I could be of the best support," added the mental-health advocate, entrepreneur and Angel investor.
What's interesting about Liz Hannah's script, however, is that, like Smith's, it doesn't shy away from the real feeling of helplessness and inadequacy that many women feel when they are handed the keys they were denied for so long.
This is something that I worry a lot about in the book and the way I frame it is a sort of learned helplessness, this constant feeling of being kicked by the economy, by your boss, by your family.
Millions have the vague sense that the high prices, frustration over sheer unavailability, awful customer service, and feeling of helplessness associated with internet access in America would be fixed if only net neutrality were the law of the land.
"The frustration, fear and helplessness our veterans feel waiting for months to get the health care they need is nothing compared to a day at Disneyland and the secretary should be embarrassed for making such a comparison," said Kirk.
Still, the appeal of Mr. Trump's message underscores the hopelessness of many workers and the helplessness among policy experts struggling to find a fix for a labor market in which it has become increasingly tough to make a living.
Henry Ng, a lecturer at Hong Kong University who is an expert in social psychology, told Business Insider that there had been a "general sense of hopelessness and helplessness" among protesters, many of whom are students or young adults.
Maybe people grow weary of wrestling with their anger and helplessness, and shunt the thought to the back of their minds and try to simply go on with life, dealing with spouses and children, making dinner and making beds.
On the first anniversary of her arrest in Canada, Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, issued an open letter describing how she experienced fear, pain, disappointment, helplessness, torment and acceptance of the unknown.
He had made his name in academia in the 1970s and '80s for discovering the phenomenon of "learned helplessness," in which individuals become conditioned to believe that negative events are inescapable, even when those events are within their control.
But they are also showing symptoms of what is called "learned helplessness": terms and conditions for services are often impenetrable and users have no choice than to accept them (smartphone apps quit immediately if one does not tap on "I agree").
This could be a kind of ingrained learned helplessness—one acquired through thousands of years of artificial selection, and possibly through the instinctual behaviors of the very first ancestral wolves who left their pack mates and made humans their best friends.
But a combination of learned helplessness and lack of hypocrisy — in that very few hedge fund managers pretend to be making the world a better place for anyone but their clients — shields them from anything like the rancor they deserve.
In the two decades since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school resource officers have emerged as a primary balm to soothe America's sense of helplessness in the face of a seemingly endless string of violent childhood deaths.
For that state of retroactive helplessness and vulnerability requires a vast degree of power and privilege to fabricate, especially if you've never had it to begin with, which is a widely held belief about Jackson that Leaving Neverland also advances.
Where the government fails to report, she pieces the accounts together: by visiting the victim's home and talking with parents, husbands, and children, all of whom have been robbed of sleep, hope, and joy by way of absence and helplessness.
Because we've done this already this year: We voted ourselves out of the EU for no discernible reason at all and woke up to this same choking, throttling sense of despair, of helplessness and fear, the one you're feeling now.
"We can't have children in a state of helplessness," said Ada Beatriz Rico, head of the local women's advocacy group which campaigned for the "Brisa Law", which was passed this month and is expected to come into force later this year.
But it was law that interested Virgil Jr. Accompanying his father to the Lake County Courthouse, he observed the patent fear and helplessness of poor black defendants who were paraded before a judge without understanding the legal proceedings or their rights.
I think when you first start getting written about in papers, that's a bit disorientating because you feel a slight helplessness and you also think 'oh everyone believing this thing, this sort of half true or maybe not true at all'.
Learned Helplessness: After you've worked on a few games and perceived a pattern of "naturally occurring" crunch, regardless of what company you work at or what game genre it is, it's difficult to believe it can be any other way.
Opponents of sleep training, many of whom are more generally committed to "attachment parenting," say that in fact sleep training results in "learned helplessness," with infants making the agonizing discovery that no matter how hard they cry, no one will come.
We might consider instead the possibility first identified by Susan Bordo in her book Unbearable Weight: That our enduring obsession with disciplining and modifying our own bodies, and compulsively judging and condemning others', is but an acting out of our helplessness.
The truth, by most reasonable tellings, is less sensational: Benedict was at John Paul II's side as he slid into helplessness in the years before his death, and saw the disorientation that a dying Pope could sow among his flock.
And he frames his critique generously, stipulating that it isn't laziness that's destroying hillbilly culture but what the psychologist Martin Seligman calls "learned helplessness" — the fatalistic belief, born of too much adversity, that nothing can be done to change your lot.
To a degree that they may not be aware of, people feel less hope and more stress; their self-regard is damaged; they believe they are fated to take what they can get; they exist in a state approaching learned helplessness.
For anyone who doesn't support Trump, one of the most difficult parts of his presidency is the lingering feeling of helplessness—things are bad and there's nothing we can but watch it all crumble, and vote in the next election.
The African continent is filled with promise Adebola Williams took us on a brief journey through the popular narrative of Africa as a place of desperation and helplessness to the present day Africa, which he believes is buoyant with promise.
"This new instrumentarian power deprives us not only of the right to consent, but also of the right to combat, building a world of no exit in which ignorance is our only alternative to resigned helplessness, rebellion or madness," she agrees.
Even though some people have shunned the comparison, Black Lives Matter is our Black Power, a purposefully polarizing phrase meant to inspire hope and strength in a dire time of helplessness, much to the chagrin of many on the outside.
That the country has consistently produced about 85 percent of the world's opium, despite more than $8 billion spent by the United States alone to fight it over the years, is accepted with a sense of helplessness among counternarcotics officials.
But the point I find particularly unconvincing is that even if it's true that these things can be addictive, and in fact are addictive to a bunch of people, we shouldn't say it because it creates a learned helplessness problem.
He missed the 2016 European Championship, too; that tournament took place only months after his ouster was confirmed, when the feelings of embarrassment and helplessness were at their most intense, he said, and when going outside meant disguising his appearance.
There's certainly a rich vein of learned helplessness running through the party's tendency to make the kludge-y, insufficient, better-than-nothing half-measures that formerly resulted from negotiation with an utterly perverse opposition party its current roster of opening offers.
Children are familiar with this kind of helplessness, but this movie suggests that adults have just as little agency, and works on the fear that has set off so many midlife crises: the sense you are turning into your parents.
At the Upright Citizens Brigade show in January, Ms. Silverberg opened with an appeal to the audience to call their representatives expressing dissatisfaction with President Trump's cabinet appointments, and every comic's set began with a tone of exasperation or helplessness.
Here is the statement, which blamed the gun lobby's influence for Congress's "paralysis" on guns: The paralysis you feel right now — the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen — isn't real.
" The initial inspiration for the project, says Javed — whose resume includes companies like NASA, EdX, Tesla, Apple, and Oracle — was "the raw feeling of helplessness that we [cofounders Aziz Alghunaim and Abubakar Abid] felt about the refugee crisis over the past six years.
With silky colorations and slow panning shots, the piece draws upon the loss of identity and bleak helplessness that can come from suffering mental and emotional abuse from someone you care about and from an individual you had believed cared about you.
How to take care of yourself Breathe, with purpose: The helplessness you feel after an election can lead you to circular thoughts -- notions that roll around and around in your head, picking up false momentum and meaning that you can't really shake.
The FBI, which just a few days ago was attempting to convince the country of its helplessness in the face of encrypted iPhones, has generously offered its assistance in unlocking an iPhone and iPod for a prosecutor in Arkansas, the Associated Press reports.
They were among the first to pointedly use the word "survivor," often replacing "victim" in a form of deliberate rebranding to emphasize women's resourcefulness rather than their helplessness and the decisions they had made that allowed them to stay safe and sane.
"The frustration, fear and helplessness our veterans feel waiting for months to get the health care they need is nothing compared to a day at Disneyland, and the Secretary should be embarrassed for making such a comparison," he said in a statement.
Privately, they said, Mr. Christie and his team attribute the anger to the feeling of helplessness that once-powerful Republican leaders feel over Mr. Trump's ascent, something those leaders did little to stop and now want to pin, perhaps unfairly, on the governor.
But the relentless cycle of policy-lawsuit-injunction-appeal can sometimes seem like it's led to an attitude of learned helplessness: Even as the administration is developing a policy, the people working on it assume it's going to get held up in court.
Fleet Foxes was the will-they, won't-they band of 2016, with rumors and guesses swirling for months around the impending release of the band's third full-length LP. The indie folk group dropped off the map after touring 2011's Helplessness Blues.
In these weeks, you understand why the fashion industry is so often parodied: because the universe it's capable of creating is so utterly bewitching that we must remind ourselves to laugh at it — to do otherwise would be to admit our helplessness.
In these weeks, you understand why the fashion industry is so often parodied: because the universe it's capable of creating is so utterly bewitching that we must remind ourselves to laugh at it — to do otherwise would be to admit our helplessness.
In fact, the repetitive nature of that cycle — and the helplessness that it engenders in David, Karen, and Vicki as parents struggling to navigate a mountain of specialists and advice to figure out what to do — is the true subject of Beautiful Boy.
"Our hardest burden has been our feeling of helplessness as we have watched him endure a punishment that was delivered not only prior to a verdict, but prior to any semblance of due process for well over a year," she said, according to the CBC.
According to Susanne Babbel, PhD, MFT, author of Heal the Body, Heal the Mind: A Somatic Approach to Moving Beyond Trauma, having a revenge fantasy, or even just watching one play out, can be healing — and even healthy — because it helps conquer feelings of helplessness.
You are probably resigned by now to the malicious code panic cycle: A flaw is discovered or exploited, the sensitive personal data of millions is/is not compromised, and we all push a few buttons to get the fix — and pray hackers ignore our helplessness.
The conflagration brought a feeling of helplessness and foreboding -- reminiscent of the devastation on 9/11, in some ways, and perhaps that was part of the effect for some people: the sense -- real or imagined -- that we were watching a metaphor, a prelude, a warning.
As we collectively continue trying to process the constant political, social, and technological changes in the world, and the feelings of frustration and helplessness that sometimes comes with them, it's comforting to retreat to a fantasy of being able to deal with whatever comes.
" During this "seminar," one of the therapists, describing the abreactive techniques they used to regress patients back to the helplessness of childhood, said that these techniques "were so powerful" that they could use them to manipulate and control their patients, "if we wanted to.
"I understand this feeling of helplessness, but if the French people absorb this truth that it is a long war which will require resilience and resistance, we need to form a block and stay united," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the French television channel TF1.
"I don't sleep well, so in the middle of the night I wake up, and I know there's an intruder in the house," he said, explaining how his "sense of foreboding and helplessness" in the quiet, dark home "planted the seed" for his thrillers.
It was also because the subsequent sense of helplessness—the sobering realization that we do not have the means to put an end to entrenched patterns of self-destruction—is now prevalent in many arenas of public life, from health care to police brutality.
As Jeet Heer previously pointed out in The New Republic, President Trump has adopted a posture of epistemological helplessness with regard to the killing, both refusing to listen to the tape of Khashoggi's murder and saying no one can ever "really know" what happened.
The other crucial audience for Iran's announcement on Wednesday, in addition to Europe, was the Iranian people and, specifically, the critics who have been frustrated at what they viewed as Mr. Rouhani's impotence when confronted with American belligerence and European helplessness over the past year.
While the run was not as lengthy as his famous Beast Quake against New Orleans in 2011, it provided a similar feeling of helplessness for his opponent and set the tone in a victory that was more convincing than the 17-9 final score.
The real consequence of the Astros scandal may be to stoke the feeling of helplessness we all feel with technology at times, always a step behind, dismissive of the finger-wagging dinosaur who is lecturing about the past, arrogantly pushing in the new era.
"I can't ever relate to the helplessness and hopelessness of being truly homeless because I really do have those keys in my pocket, but at least for one night we are creating awareness to imagine what it'd be like sleeping outside," Mr. O'Shea, 54, said.
"There is a sense of inevitability and helplessness in the face of such events, that nothing can be done or that anything that is being done will not be sufficient to stop the devastating consequences of a warming climate," Ban said on the press call.
A sense of helplessness or even anesthesia can easily set in when we consider the monolithic support of Israel by even our supposedly progressive representatives like New York Mayor de Blasio and US Senator Bernie Sanders, not to mention Israel's longstanding imperviousness to international censure.
What gets lost in the fight to deem the safety pin movement good or bad, or to write it off as a facile white crutch, is that a lot of people in this country are feeling a very real sense of helplessness right now.
One of the most painful shots of the episode saw Rick on the roof of the RV, facing the walker who was left hanging off the bridge with a rope around its neck last season — emblematic of his own helplessness in the face of Negan's absolute control.
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention last summer, she captured the feelings of helplessness, worry, and fear that we've felt while witnessing the rise of an ignorant and dangerous man whose tactics have mirrored those of every bully most of us have ever come up against.
Tristan Thompson of the Cavaliers was partly tasked with guarding Curry during the game, and when reporters asked if he felt "helplessness" while guarding the 2015-16 NBA MVP, who caught fire for 33 points in the Warriors win, Thompson didn't take too well to the question.
United States, a case in which a wife was accused of killing her husband, Walker testified that the accused did indeed exhibit symptoms similar to the 110 women she had studied, highlighting the feelings of helplessness and fear that push women to stay in abusive relationships.
" Dyson set the tone with this paragraph, "You will never understand the helplessness we feel in watching these events unfold, violently, time and again, as shaky images tell a story more sobering than your eyes are willing to believe: that black life can mean so little.
This sense of helplessness in the face of such entrenched segregation is what makes so alluring the notion, embraced by liberals and conservatives, that we can address school inequality not with integration but by giving poor, segregated schools more resources and demanding of them more accountability.
But even there the verse is marked with a blank helplessness: Not one single scratch on your helmetYou took the whole fucking fallon your chin, the snap back of your headcaused the fracture, the space that's injuredis no bigger than a chocolate bar and yethere we are.
"When parents feel that they are really part of the treatment team," Dr. Wilens said, "you lose that hopelessness and helplessness a lot of people come in with when their kids have a behavioral health issue," and that helps everyone take better care of the child.
As May explains, after World War II, the word kawaii, which initially indicated helplessness, came to represent "girl culture," as expressed primarily in shoujo (young girl) manga, where protagonists appear to be vulnerable and in need of protection, but they have a defiant, and self-sufficient side.
On the first anniversary of her arrest, the Huawei technology executive Meng Wanzhou has written a reflective, sometimes plaintive letter describing her year in detention in Vancouver as having "moments of fear, pain, disappointment, helplessness, torment, and struggle" but also acceptance and more time for herself.
" Feldman said he is "constantly amazed at the sheer number of controversial statements and seemingly offensive things that Trump says and does," but added that "if people really do develop over time a sense of learned helplessness about politics, that's really bad for a participatory democracy.
Mayorga described mediation "as re-experiencing the sexual assault," an ordeal marked by "extreme fearfulness, complete helplessness and eventually a sense of passivity where she would do anything just to be able to leave/escape/avoid revisiting the sexual assault by continuing the mediation," the lawsuit says.
And, admittedly, there is something enjoyable about watching him lose badly, a bloodlust of the id where all the frustration with our helplessness at our inability to alter even the smallest things about how the world's corporate masters conduct themselves becomes centered on Roman fucking Reigns.
"Perspectives" focuses on the futility of a politics nurtured by partisan bubbles; "Dying Man" inverts the helplessness of being unable to check a dead phone, thereby exposing the feeling's absurdity; "Pure Comedy" uses the arc of human history to make a point about the cyclical nature of power structures.
But Sessions's formulation about condoning or "complete helplessness" could set the bar higher for what counts as unable or unwilling — especially because his ruling emphasized (in a passage quoted by the implementation memo) that police ignoring crime reports doesn't mean they're unable or unwilling to help the victim.
Though he acknowledged that he instantly associated MS with "helplessness, wheel chairs, pain, misery, and hopelessness and pity in the eyes of my family and friends," Alexakis said his wife helped him avoid spiraling into a panic and reminded him that he was not alone on this journey.
These have more of the conventional contours of a thriller, verging at moments on the ridiculous, but even here the novel is careful to grant Livia the full complexity of her awful history, the murderousness, the helplessness, the sorrow and the self-loathing that underlie her adult strength.
Our police forces, our war engines, our beliefs in our gods, even our politics can be understood as a kind of anxious shoring up of the floodgates of the fear at our helplessness, a check on the dread that we can die anytime for any host of reasons.
Similarly, I suspect both the predominance of Negan thus far this season — both in the story and in the marketing — and the emphasis on separating the main characters — both narratively and by using narrowly focused episodes — was meant to instill in viewers a sense of helplessness and isolation.
But this is the key to the show's appeal: It builds catharsis squarely in the field of defeat, more interested in how it can make a moment dramatically satisfying — using our resentment, our sympathy, our envy or helplessness — than in where exactly it lands, in the grand scheme of class politics.
In domination/submission scenarios, ticklers may enjoy the feeling of control and the ability to make the tickled squirm, and the tickled may enjoy the feeling of helplessness—restraints and blindfolds are used to enhance the powerless element of the scene and also for safety reasons (more on that below).
" And yet, as evidence, he cites an everyday cliche from the album—"We are just happy to serve you"—and argues, "It sounds for all the world like the most cloistered and isolated soul in modern rock music opening up and admitting a helplessness far more personal than he's ever dared.
The oncologist Grace was sent to, Dr. Jochen Lorch of the nearby Dana-­Farber Cancer Institute, had watched a patient die this way during medical school, and it filled him with such horror, such helplessness, that for years he felt sure he would never pursue a career in cancer treatment.
IGNALINA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, LITHUANIA (Reuters) - The success of a U.S. television series on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster has made its filming locations in Lithuania an off-beat tourist attraction, but has also renewed the anger and helplessness felt by many of the Lithuanians forced to clean up the contamination.
The patients I see in my work as a physician in the emergency department speak of a general sense of helplessness, as though a tidal wave is coming, and there is nothing they can do except wash their hands, try to find black market hand sanitizer, stay home and pray.
The subject of Katherine Ketcham's THE ONLY LIFE I COULD SAVE (Sounds True, $21.95) isn't explicitly trauma, but at the heart of all trauma is helplessness — and I can think of few things more traumatic than watching the personality of the child you love vanish in the face of drug addiction.
When I was growing up in Afghanistan, every time I felt overwhelmed by the never-ending violence, every time the monster of grief dug its sharp claws into my heart and every time I felt the walls of helplessness inching toward me, I would always think of one place: the West.
Wehner's stories about Maskell are full of despair and helplessness — Wehner says Maskell raped her multiple times, sometimes bringing in men she didn't know to assault her — and you see the devastating effects his abuse had on her faith and psyche, her relationship with her husband, and her family over the years.
But as I pressed the big, loose-feeling buttons on this chunky plastic handheld and made mission-critical decisions, I felt the familiar pressures of looking after everyone in my group and the helplessness of seeing a random pop-up alert that someone had broken a limb or come down with cholera.
While many books about medicine and illness address this, Awdish's work is singular in its rawness and willingness to show us a person at one with her pain and isolation, able to relate completely through her writing to the intense feelings of helplessness that confront almost every patient admitted to a hospital.
There are moments in Bombshell where the film suggests it's aware of this, and tries to demonstrate, presumably for the sort of people who think maybe the women are overblowing the matter, the way sexual harassment makes life a living hell for victims, even when they go along with it out of helplessness.
You could say, then, that Colossal is about everyday monsters, and the big ones on TV attacking Seoul are just an expressionist way to help us feel the helplessness that Gloria experiences when she recognizes how her own out-of-control habits make her do things that hurt others, if on a smaller scale.
Employing a frank yet eloquent writing style, the slim book traces a path from the author's rape as an 18-year-old in 1980s Europe to the ways our society stigmatizes victims into silence, shame, and helplessness while, at the same time, allowing perpetrators to go unpunished for many years, if ever at all.
If Fleet Foxes sounded like gorgeous, sun-kissed landscapes, though, listening to Helplessness Blues felt like being in the eye of a storm: The record was as portentous as it was inviting, with darker textures and increasingly personal lyrics sharing space with the gangland sing-alongs that listeners had come to expect from the band.
Shiller notes that bitcoin's amazing popularity can be explained because it is tied to many different narratives, including an anarchy narrative (use of the term began around 1880 and is tied up with freedom and the later "hacker ethic"), the desire for economic freedom, the fear of economic inequality, and the feeling of helplessness.
And, couched in a kind of helplessness and victimization that this film allows (and that only a white woman could enjoy), she persistently refuses to respond to criticisms against her or account for how her proximity to structural power allowed her to adopt blackness in a way that could not possibly be replicated by non-white people claiming whiteness.
But nothing so far has broken the Marvel formula quite like Avengers: Endgame, which follows Infinity War by diving deep into the previous film's feeling of emotional loss and helplessness, exploring it at length, and then expanding into something that isn't so much a Marvel story as a series of calculated payoffs for a decade of Marvel stories.
Helplessness and anger are all too familiar in 2018, but sometimes the best self-care is to take a break from reality and indulge in some comfort TV.  It is our balm against the relentless news cycle, our safety blanket at the end of a long day – and it pairs well with an actual blanket too.
The personal tragedy does not remain personal: It is, in his case, a crystallization of the human condition under stress, a process that had begun in Borbely's work before the murders, and one that was immediately linked in his mind with Christianity, Judaism, the struggle with historical poverty, and an understanding of human helplessness and violence.
When we're no longer more intelligent than our machines, when they can easily outthink and outperform us, making the sort of intuitive leaps in research and other areas that we currently associate with genius, a sort of learned helplessness is likely to set in for us, and the idea of work itself may cease to hold meaning.
However, there is a world of difference between natural, market-driven evolutions in an industry and artificial "progress" driven by a select group of ideologues in Washington, D.C. To many in West Virginia, "progress" looks like drug addiction driven by joblessness and hopelessness driven by a sense of helplessness in the face of a regulatory onslaught.
Your father is a dark, sturdy man, and so unlike you that, as a child, you were sure that one day Hagrid would come to your door and inform you of your status as a Mudblood, and then your true life—the life without the weight of your father's history, pain, guilt, hopelessness, helplessness, judgment, and shame—would begin.
Whether that comes through as rage, bitterness, or helplessness for the player all builds toward a simple idea: "With that final moment, [we're not trying] to shock our players or punch them in the stomach or anything like that, but simply do something that I think this medium alone can really do, which is make you feel the way Chloe felt."
Thinking back, though, my pre-op therapy didn't help me realize how extraordinarily hard it would be to recover from the surgery I had: the stress from being unable to eat solid food for a week and a half, and the feeling of helplessness from being so bedridden and unable to walk normally for weeks, to name only two difficulties.
A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around, whether the powerlessness in question is that of a victim or, as in the title story of "The Doll-Master," that of someone who is unable to stop doing harm to others: Obsession can be a kind of vulnerability, too.
Whether by instinct or by intention, it benefits the regime, whose goal is to create an overwhelming feeling of shared helplessness in the population at large: we will detain you and take away your green card—or, no, now we won't take away your green card, but we will hold you here, and we may let you go, or we may not.
Why African photographers don't get to tell African photo stories in Western media: If the construction of the African as child-like, or not quite human, who has little agency or intellect, aided the colonial project, today, the narrative continues to aid the construction of the European self as civilised, maintaining the African and Africa as the location of savagery, helplessness, and devastation.
In the 15 years since the terrorist attacks that claimed Tom's life, his final words -- "Do something" -- have served as a source of inspiration, reminding us every day to banish the sense of helplessness that follows the tragic loss of a loved one, and instead seize on the opportunities to do everything possible to prevent another attack like the one that claimed Tom's life.
Of course, if you go by the numbers, more blacks were killed by police in 2015 than were lynched in 1892, the peak year for lynching in the US. It's impossible to be young and black and aware of all of this history, to watch the tragedies of today, and not feel a sense of helplessness—like your life is no longer in your own hands.
With an increasing number of black filmmakers and performers taking advantage of the explosion of streaming platforms and other outlets to address the national conversation around police brutality and Black Lives Matter, this engagement feels necessary, a way of helping us cope with the helplessness we feel whenever black people are thrust into the media spotlight solely because they were killed by law enforcement.
From her now iconic lambskin and wild boar skin sculpture "Father is in Town" (2012), to gowns collapsed in the sand as a metaphor for wealth in "Evian desert" (2012), to her most recent installation made out of dolls, "Cool Girls Without Hands" (2016), which addresses the eroticization of female helplessness, Lemsalu is fascinated with the possibility of producing objects that aren't aestheticized — their concrete presence is narrative and not representational.
He urges the crowd to amplify his message of hope and inclusion, rather than giving in to "the sense of helplessness that that sets in every time you turn on the TV." In his uniform of a white button-down, narrow tie and slim-cut navy trousers, his cheeks still ruddy from the 22020-degree temperatures, older voters say in interviews that he reminds them of John F. Kennedy.
But the security industry's implicit tendency toward making every new exploit seem like a five-alarm fire, and the media coverage of the industry, has led to a widespread and wrongful learned helplessness; an attitude among end users that everything is terrible, everything is hackable and nothing can ever be done about this except to throw money at security in the hopes of becoming a slightly harder target so another victim is chosen.
A baby being torn away from her mother mere moments after birth; the Wives infantilizing the Handmaids by debating the merits of giving them cookies ("You shouldn't spoil them — sugar is bad for them"); the moment of uncertainty before Offred enters the Commander's office, unsure if she's about to be beaten or assaulted or who knows what else (invited for a game of Scrabble, apparently); a thousand micro-aggressions that add up to a climate of fear and helplessness.
Amid the news, I find tweets telling me it's okay to take time for self-care, tweets telling me it's crucial that the more privileged don't coddle ourselves in times of crisis, tweets telling me to keep paying attention, tweets telling me to just log off already, tweets offering a desperately needed silver lining to some fresh horror, and tweets (more and more and more of these now) expressing helplessness and confusion and anguish and fright.

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