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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with her Masters degree in Social Work.

**CONTENT WARNING** This story mentions the topic of abusive relationships. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep pushing yourself to accomplish something when it feels like you’ve struck out so many ...

A few years ago some friends got a new Golden Retriever puppy named Sugar. When I first met Sugar, she was a ball of fur and energy. Picture this: a golden streak dashing across the yard, eyes ...

Georgia private school; Ask the Experts panel; inventor Ky “Rocketman” Michaelson We visit a Georgia private school for LD students for which countering learned helplessness is its mission statement.

There’s a scientific term for the feeling that nothing you do matters: learned helplessness. It is a state experienced by all humans (and most animals) in response to enduring negative stimuli. In ...

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 ...