There have been many studies of the proactive impacts of medications known to induce learned helplessness has extended and presented discoveries of an even richer symptomatology of learned helplessness than initially ever imagined. These are disclosures that would likely have been missed without the introduction given by the learned helplessness theory and its extension to depression. These incorporate more successful screening for restorative medications and methods, CNS neurotransmitter consumption, and super-sensitivity to re-exhaustion, mechanisms of analgesia, immune system impairments with likely disease consequences, increases in vulnerability to psychosomatic dysfunction like gastric ulcer, and even non-biological things like school failure. These are but a few examples. Nonetheless, numerous clinical phenomena are better understood …show more content…
The hopelessness theory attributes depression to a pattern of negative thinking in which people blame themselves for negative life events, view the causes of those events as permanent, and overgeneralize specific weaknesses to many areas of their life. Borderline Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of unstable interpersonal relationships and self-image. There is marked impulsivity which begins by early adulthood. The root, however, stems from early childhood, when the person experiences what is termed “learned helplessness,” which is a cognitive model of depression in which a person feels unable to control events around him or her. "Learned helplessness" suggests that a person has been taught to feel helpless and think in self-defeating ways. In other words, the person has been taught that nothing they can do will make a difference, that they can do nothing right, that others know better than they do, and that they have little or no power and control over either their own lives or external