"[An Alzheimer's] patient can end up being demanding, aggressive and unbearable," she noted before describing the feeling of extreme solitude and helplessness that makes carers like her contemplate ending their partner's lives.
Moreover, they also may feel extreme distress and helplessness about not being able to protect their infant from harm [ 19].
Likewise, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with the process of shutdown-dissociation following extreme trauma-induced helplessness [ 17].
The participant is then asked to briefly describe the worst of these events and to indicate whether or not he or she felt extreme anxiety or helplessness during the event.
PTSD may develop in any person who experiences extreme stress with fear, helplessness or horror following threat of injury or death [26].
But secretly I feel the same helplessness and rage that animates the extreme right wing of this country.
In a marvellous 1973 essay, "On the Perfection Underlying Life," she coolly contemplates the "panic of complete helplessness," which "drives us to fantastic extremes".
Part of it was what you'd expect: the constant exposure to extreme poverty, the children begging in the street, the helplessness he felt while listening to stories of child prostitutes scarred by angry pimps.
PTSD occurs as a result of exposure to extreme traumatic stressors that arouse feelings of intense fear, helplessness, and horror in exposed individuals [22].
In June 1917 Luxemburg, stoical in the face of extreme deprivation, told her long-standing admirer, Hans Diefenbach, of her "helplessness in 'earthly matters'".
