Somalia has long survived on the mercy of others. Each drought brings planes loaded with food aid and each flood prompts a ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...

Various types of schizophrenia are distinguished by certain symptoms that, while relating to affective, social, physical and intellectual functioning, indicate consequences of extreme emotional ...

Fortunately, there’s something we can do to help. Another week goes by, and with it, the feeling that terrible things are happening and that there’s nothing we can do to change them. That’s how I feel ...

Instead of learning how to complete tasks on their own, many children in school today are honing their learned helplessness. Helicopter parenting is often to blame. As Verywellmind noted, "When ...

Somewhere along the way, working hard became a thing of the past for some. Effort? Cringe. Optimism? Please. In some workplaces, skepticism trumps enthusiasm, sarcasm wins more respect than passion, ...