What is hopelessness and helplessness?

Hopelessness is the feeling that nothing can be done by anyone to make the situation better. People may accept that a threat is real, but that threat may loom so large that they feel the situation is hopeless. Helplessness is the feeling that they themselves have no power to improve their situation.

What is an aimless life?

If you’re aimless, you don’t have a destination or a goal in mind. Aimless wandering through a forest might take you in circles, or worse yet, get you lost. The adjective aimless is good for describing things that have no particular purpose or plan.

Which means that life is empty meaningless purposeless aimless an so on?

If meaning is what we desire, then meaninglessness is a hole, an emptiness, in our lives.

What are the causes of hopelessness?

What can cause feelings of hopelessness?

• Depression.
• Anxiety.
• Bipolar disorder.
• Schizophrenia.
• Alcohol or drug problems.
• A history of physical emotional, or sexual abuse, including military sexual trauma (MST)
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

What will constant hopelessness and helplessness lead to?

Repeated experiences that bolster these feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can result in growing into adulthood ultimately feeling that there is nothing one can do to change his or her problems. Learned helplessness can also result in anxiety, depression, or both.

What does purposeless mean?

having no purpose
Definition of purposeless : having no purpose : aimless, meaningless.

What will happen if we lead an aimless life?

If we live an aimless life, we will be slaves to our cravings and desires, we will have no concern for right or good, we will only do whatever serves our cravings and bodily desires, without concern for consequence.

What are the assumptions of logotherapy?

Logotherapy proposes that humans have a will to meaning, which means that seeing meaning in pain can prepare the individual for suffering. This assumption embodies a significant departure from one’s will to achieve power and pleasure. It posits that the discovery of meaning is one’s primary motive for living.

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