Learned helplessness is a proven animal model. Its reliably-created phenotype is often the result of applying chronic unpredictable stress.
As we’re finding out worldwide, forcing humans to learn helplessness works in much the same way, with governments imposing what amounts to martial law. Never mind that related phenotypes and symptoms include:
- “Social defeat
- Social avoidance behavior
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Anhedonia
- Increased hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis sensitivity
- Visceral hypersensitivity” [1]
Helplessness is both a learned behavior and a cumulative set of experiences. Animal models demonstrate that these phenotypes usually continue on throughout the subjects’ entire lifespans.
Will the problems caused in humans by humans be treated by removing the causes? Or will the responses be approaches such as drugs to treat the symptoms?
A major difference between our current situation and the situation depicted below is that during communism, most people didn’t really trust or believe what the authorities, newspapers, television, and radio said:
Image from Prague’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism
[1] 2014 GABAB(1) receptor subunit isoforms differentially regulate stress resilience curated in If research provides evidence for the causes of stress-related disorders, why only focus on treating the symptoms?
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