If you feel stuck, lost, unhappy, and unable to change your situation.. then you might be experiencing learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness occurs when someone has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly, and then come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try, even when opportunities for change become available. For instance, continuing to smoke despite several attempts to quit may cause a person to believe that they will always be a smoker. This kind of perceived helplessness is a big barrier to changing their behavior: if you feel like you are lost and not in control of your destiny, you will stop taking action and accept whatever situation you are in, even if this makes you unhappy or affects your overall well-being.
There is one good news though: just as its name suggests, learned helplessness is a learned behavior, therefore it can also be unlearned.
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