Little is known about the relationships among pain, function, psychological variables like perceived helplessness and emotional health, and patient satisfaction in people with revision knee replacement surgery.
This is what frustration feels like: abject helplessness, as Eric Smith watched Tim Tebow sprint around the corner, watched him race to the end zone, watched him celebrate the touchdown that sank the Jets on Thursday night and, maybe, for the year.
"It's like learned helplessness.
More recently, experimental psychologists have described phenomena like "learned helplessness" and optimistic personality types, also concepts that intelligence and military officials have found provocative.
She feared that, at boarding school, the new ways would dissolve her granddaughter's fighting spirit and replace it with either an incurious rigidity, like her son's, or a limp helplessness, like Mgbeke's.
In vivo administration in mice induced robust, dose-dependent antidepressant-like behaviors in learned helplessness models (tail suspension and forced swim tests).
(And the fact that he is hobbled by a leg shattered in a motorcycle accident creates a "Rear Window -like combination of boredom, helplessness and voyeurism).
Such a statement -- along with the rest of "An Unfortunate Woman" -- can be read as an expression of Zen-like peace or of helplessness verging on despair.
Mr. Butler says his obsession with thunder and lightning is really an obsession with helplessness: "Like, oh, there's an ice storm in Montreal, and there's no power for a week.
