Neuroscience Has a Name for the Way so Many Jews Are Feeling Today: Learned Helplessness - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Neuroscience has a name for the way so many Jews are feeling today: learned helplessness

Another week goes by, and with it, the feeling that terrible things are happening and that there’s nothing we can do to change them.

Neuroscience has a name for the way so many Jews are feeling today: learned helplessness - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Another week goes by, and with it, the feeling that terrible things are happening and that there’s nothing we can do to change them. That’s how I feel as an Israeli living in New York, and I know many people around me, both here and at home, feel the same. The horrifying videos of Israeli hostages Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, along with the other hostages still held by Hamas in inhumane conditions, leave me with a deep sense of helplessness…