But although the novel is the story of a child – narrated by his adult self years later – Ocean is most definitely a book for adults, "not because kids wouldn't enjoy some of the fantasy and the magic … but it's much more about helplessness and powerlessness, that point when you're screwed.
On the subject of children, he said that he had his first child when he was an undergraduate and now in his second marriage has a 9-year-old son: "I take that as a lesson in priorities, having children, being afraid for them, feeling an emotional helplessness much beyond my own interests" -- all of which filters through his fiction.
Learned helplessness-negative rats developed AA earlier and of higher severity compared with learned helplessness-positive rats, although the corticosterone response to acute stress was much higher in learned helplessness-negative rats than that of learned helplessness-positive rats [ 57].
Before I understood that I had been sexually assaulted, I was all the more confused by how much the sense of helplessness had invaded my life.
Many Greeks will be inclined to vote for the insurgents as much out of hopelessness as helplessness.
A lot of people suffer in silence until the problem gets too much, compounding their feelings of helplessness and isolation.
In a sunny Chicago, it's easy to feel, like Dreiser's Sister Carrie, "a sense of helplessness amid so much evidence of power and force".
His pain, desperation, isolation, hopelessness, and helplessness, was too much; killing himself was the only option he felt he had.
They often hung out together because they had so much in common: feelings of helplessness, despair, guilt, confusion and a belief that true happiness is beyond reach.
Although not the most commonly reported motivations, many participants in the cross-sectional survey subscribed to motives such as to change someone's mind, to make someone sorry, to show how much I care, to show helplessness – which appear to be acts of communication with a significant other.
