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Control (The Absence of it)

It doesn't sound like much. But you'll eventually realise how important control is when you don't have it. When your actions don't affect the situation in any way at all. It's as if the trajectory and the speed of a rock you throw has nothing to do with how you throw it. I don't need to have a PhD to tell you that a condition of such is absolutely inconvenient. The implications of not being able to have control can prove disastrous. For example it could spark this thing called "learned helplessness". "What the bloody hell is that?" you might ask. Well, I find it hard to explain but I am fairy certain that you will find what you seek here . It's basically this condition where you allegedly thought that you don't have control over the current situation that you begin to doubt the things you have in mind aimed on trying take control or utilise the situation, therefore you don't bother to do it. In some cases, it's true that you