These limitations are out of their control, leading them to feel extremely helpless. Although the physical limitations may have restrictive certain activities in their life, they may give up hope and generalize this to other activities.
Helplessness is a learned behavior. There are advantages to being helpless and one of them is that the helpless person does much less than a self-reliant one does. In the theory of learned helplessness maintains that the perception that one is helpless, or unable to control, or affect significant events in one’s life, leads to low self-esteem, undermines goal oriented motivation and produces a depressed emotional state.
What is helplessness?
