Life can be hard—and believing there is nothing you can do about it makes it worse. Fortunately, this is rarely true if you take a moment to get out of your head and check in on reality. TheVisualsYouNeed/Shutterstock
Learned helplessness is an affliction that can torment you throughout your life.
It is a condition coined by psychologist Martin Seligman in 1967 that describes the erroneous belief that there is no solution to a problem, even when there actually is—sometimes right in front you.
