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*Article on how an elephant without chains will still think it has chains - https://pmcounseling.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-elephant-syndrome-learned-helplessness/
*Article on how an elephant without chains will still think it has chains - https://pmcounseling.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-elephant-syndrome-learned-helplessness/
*Dr. [[Martin Seligman]] is the 'father of learned helplessness' - ie, the guy who studied it
*Dr. [[Martin Seligman]] is the 'father of learned helplessness' - ie, the guy who studied it
*And - Seligman studies in humans showed why optimism is critical for coping - otherwise, we learn to be helpless. Article above is insightful.

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Learned Helplessness