Educating patients can help reduce the helplessness and fear commonly experienced with migraine, enabling them to take control, reduce acute headache pain, and optimize long-term quality of life [36, 37].
Reduced to helplessness, we might turn to art to make some sense of such scenes.
Nan's decline had been gradual, so I had not realised until now that an old person can be reduced to helplessness – can reach the stage of having to be looked after – almost overnight.
The only things gained by looking at it are the absence of help, and the chance to witness someone reduced to helplessness in the face of their own mortality.
But the nightmare of Mogadishu, Somalia, where the bodies of Army Rangers were dragged through the streets after 18 were killed in October 1993, is a pertinent lesson -- a parable of an army equipped and trained for great wars reduced to helplessness and ridicule by a band of thugs.
Still, they do manage a moment at the end as Redgrave remains fiery and probing despite being reduced to helplessness.
Having friends, and participating socially, can help to soften the stresses of life and reduce feelings of helplessness.
By receiving emotional support from others, participants can reduce their loneliness, helplessness, and hopelessness, which are typical symptoms of depression.
In addition to improving the rate of detection of mental health symptoms, systematic measures increase a sense of partnership between patient and clinician, empower the patient to take control of their health, reduce feelings of helplessness and encourage patients to recognise early warning signs of relapse and to seek earlier intervention for future episodes [ 11, 12].
Giving blood or contributing in other ways can reduce the sense of helplessness.
