Whether by instinct or by intention, it benefits the regime, whose goal is to create an overwhelming feeling of shared helplessness in the population at large: we will detain you and take away your green card or, no, now we won't take away your green card, but we will hold you here, and we may let you go, or we may not.
(In any case, as the authors admit, Salinger already had six or so chapters of the book finished before he set foot in France, while the Holdenish sensibility — if not Holden's sweetness and essential helplessness — was shared by hundreds of artists of the period, most of whom had never held a rifle).
Some of these negative feelings, such as frustration, shame and helplessness, are shared between doctors and patients.
When Samantha Runion, Danielle van Dam and Elizabeth Short were snatched from their homes, parents everywhere shared the dread and sense of helplessness of the girls' families.
Negative emotions, such as frustration or a sense of helplessness, can also be shared between doctor and patient.
"There was just a deep sense of helplessness I think we all shared," said Robyn Carter, a former nonprofit executive in Boston and one of the Four Musketeers on the Williams campus.
And we shared an all-too-familiar sense of helplessness, grief and the sadness of a community that has long struggled to live, work and worship peacefully in this country.
"That sense of overwhelming and unfolding emergency and helplessness is critical to achieving a shared discomfort.
We have that helplessness and hopelessness that we perhaps shared.
Unlike the second generation, whose most common shared experience is that of belatedness perhaps best summed up in the French writer Henri Raczymow's rueful statement, "We cannot even say that we were almost deported" (1986, 104)—the 1.5 generation's shared experience is that of premature bewilderment and helplessness.
Common reactions when providers share bad news or face helplessness are either to avoid patients or to over identify with them (Connelly, 2009), and neither approach is healthy for the provider.
