helplessness

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Better equipped to mother Boy No. 2 or stricken with learned helplessness from being coddled by an expert on my phone day in and day out?

From Slate • May 10, 2026

"It leaves you with a feeling of helplessness," she says, "but I am going to keep trying."

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

Thousands of young undocumented migrants in Guinea have disappeared along migration routes in recent years, leaving their families in a state of uncertainty and helplessness.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

All we’re left with is confusion and the frustrating feeling of helplessness.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she’d come to dinner.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott