Learned Helplessness

Untrained and unqualified people who are drawn to rescuing and ‘fixing’ vulnerable and marginalized people are essentially vain, narcissistic, and deluded. 

They rationalize and believe they do what they do out of love and caring for vulnerable and marginalized people.

On the contrary they are feeding their own need for an identity that is romanticized in popular culture.

At the risk of using labels. They are do-gooders who don’t realize their failings.

On the far end of the spectrum, they are predators, because the good they think they do is overwhelmed by the harm they don’t see themselves doing either ignorantly, willingly, or both.

Do-gooders push conformity, compliance, and a universal normal world.

Manipulation, coercion, bullying, and pleading are their weapons of choice.

Vulnerable and marginalized people, over time, and it varies from person to person, succumb out of a need for connection, acceptance, and likely other reasons.

The effects of learned helplessness are antithetical to the notion of recovery, wellness, and resilience.

The action is predatory and the prey are vulnerable and marginalized people.

And the scenario is systemic.

Learned helplessness is a result of predatory behaviour.

The predators are held up as great saviours.

Society loses access to great people.

Great people are lost.