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Learned helplessness means that people gave up trying to help themselves, it doesn't mean that people will not accept help. Someone who wants to do anything so
by amadeuspagel 8y ago
Learned helplessness means that people gave up trying to help themselves, it doesn't mean that people will not accept help.
Someone who wants to do anything someone else tells him to is free to do so, even if he isn't enslaved. So freeing a slave is not equivalent to "treating" an addict, because in that case the addict is not left free to do what he wants, to "submit" voluntarily to his desire for heroin.
- wpietri 8y agoI don't think you have a very good understanding of addiction. Many addicts spend a long period thinking about quitting before quitting. Many addicts try and fail main times to quit. Many addicts who have quit relapse. "Voluntary" is not a binary state. I agree they aren't identical, but they all share an important commonality.