The phrase "helplessness about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feeling of being unable to change or control a situation. Example: The child's constant crying and tantrums filled the parents with a sense of helplessness about how to calm him down.
Some are entirely in the control of the very people who are now expressing dismay and helplessness about the state of the race.
When I asked Altman about this critique, he said, "I absolutely could do a better job at managing the organization — it was my chief weakness at Loopt, and I still have some learned helplessness about it.
In the meantime, I can't help but wonder if the census hasn't become a scapegoat for a larger and more important sense of helplessness about other privacy invasions that are more serious but harder to pinpoint or fight.
Even health authorities who support distributing students' scores worry about these inconsistent messages, saying they could result in eating disorders and social stigma, misinterpretation of numbers that experts say are confusing, and a sense of helplessness about high scores.
But for the people in between -- those whose opinions about Iraq have changed, sometimes more than once, over 16 months of conflict -- the conclusion that government assessments of Iraq's weaponry were overstated stirred new uncertainty and anxiety, renewed sadness over lives lost, and a sense of helplessness about when and how the conflict would end.
This interpretation is supported by evidence that the reward dependence temperament trait also predicts uncertainty and a sense of helplessness about the future.
A general sense of helplessness is about the only thing that brings together such a heterogeneous group.
I would argue that perhaps right now, Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley may be feeling that same sense of helplessness, buffeted about as he has been by events beyond his control.
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It wasn't a story about helplessness and victimization; it was an episode about everything from sweaty discomfort to outright terror, and how we deal with those emotions".
The scale consists of four items, two about perceived control and two about helplessness.
