Stress produces urgency and hyperactivity, burnout produces helplessness and hopelessness.
However, when the traumatic event produces severe helplessness, the predominant peri-traumatic response may instead be marked by a dissociative shutdown reaction.
What can theatre do?" And this leads Goode in to an examination of what the theatre can achieve in a time like this: "What we can do is analyse our situation, analyse the means by which our sense of helplessness is produced, and think around remedies that address the causes rather than alleviating the symptoms".
It is made up of three dimensions: a) rumination: incapacity to avoid thinking about pain; b) magnification: exaggeration of the impact that pain produces; and c) helplessness: the feeling that one cannot free without overcome pain [ 13].
An extract from Sullivan & Youngner's (1994) review demonstrates how the (emotional) symptoms of depression (in bold) might correlate with deficits in the cognitive (understanding, appreciation and reasoning) components of mental capacity: 'Depressive helplessness produces an underestimation of one's possible effectiveness in the face of serious illness.
These intense feelings of guilt can produce feelings of helplessness and a feeling of having lost control.
Others [ 9] defined math anxiety as a feeling of tension, helplessness, mental disorganization and dread produced when one is required to manipulate numbers or to solve mathematical problems.
"What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
Although Mr Brown's sketches are perhaps likelier than that of any other contemporary to produce instant and audible helplessness, he generally has little evident affection for his subjects, who tend, like Tony Blair, for example, not to be destined for immortality anyway.
Mitchell and Jessen proposed that torture could produce a state of "learned helplessness," or profound psychological trauma, and that this would lead to compliance with interrogators and divulgence of intelligence.
