And it left me with the same sickened feeling at the cold-blooded merriment of the shooters, their safe and dehumanizing distance from their targets, the exposed helplessness of the Iraqis being shot up in the sunwashed street.
And it left me with the same sickened feeling — at the cold-blooded merriment of the shooters, their safe and dehumanizing distance from their targets, the exposed helplessness of the Iraqis being shot up in the sunwashed street.
Expressing bitter feelings is often considered by nurses and other medical professionals to be giving in to one's weaknesses and exposing one's helplessness to others.
In learned helplessness, mice were exposed to a shuttle box for 4 d or were given inescapable foot-shocks for the same time period.
PTSD occurs as a result of exposure to extreme traumatic stressors that arouse feelings of intense fear, helplessness, and horror in exposed individuals [22].
This can be explained on the basis of learned helplessness, which has overcome the inhabitants who are exposed to adversities for more than two decades.
In line with this hypothesis, temporary inactivation of the vmPFC, by focal administration of the GABA agonist muscimol, does not reduce expression of active coping in rats exposed to an escapable shock but promotes expression of learned helplessness by these animals 24 h later (Amat et al. 2005).
Post-traumatic stress can occur after an individual is exposed to an event perceived as life threatening, and associated with intense fear, helplessness, or horror (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
1 8 For individuals, being exposed to bullying can have serious implications for mental and physical health including depression, helplessness, anxiety and despair 9; suicide ideation 10; psychosomatic and musculo-skeletal complaints 11; and the risk of cardiovascular disease.
People directly exposed to a traumatic event that threatens their physical integrity or that of others and who experience fear, helplessness, or horror are at high risk to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- as well as depression and excessive use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Moreover, animals exposed to alcohol showed decreased sucrose intake (reflective of anhedonia), decreased locomotor activity and swimming in the FST (reflective of helplessness), that were not affected by ketamine and/or NBQX.
