Overcoming Learned Helplessness

Shirley J. Davis
4 min readMay 11, 2024
Photo by Roi Dimor on Unsplash

As children, we were helpless to change our fate. We were abused and neglected so severely that our minds did a marvelous thing; it splintered into alters to share our burden. As adults, we often find ourselves in positions where the abuse continues, and we do not leave or seek a better life for ourselves.

This article will take a hard look at learned helplessness.

--

--

Shirley J. Davis

I am an author/speaker/grant writer in the U.S. My passion is authoring information about mental health disorders, especially dissociative identity disorder..