[TurkishPoptart]

Yes I am. I feel as though I have little to no control over my condition. I'm sure I could learn to automate something. I just have no direction as where to begin.

I am complaining about having nothing to do because I want work to do, to contribute to a team, to work with other people and befriend them, but it's hard when I feel so arbitrary.

[cliffy]

Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default behavior of mammals, and we need to learn how to overcome the default state.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/