Learned helplessness is based on three things:
1. Internal blaming – “It’s me!”
2. Global distortion – “It’ll affect everything I do!”
3. Stability generalization – “It will last forever!”
If, like many children, you grew up in an environment where you continually received negative criticism, then you will get to a point where you feel you are not good enough. That you must somehow be a ‘bad’ child and therefore fully deserve to be criticised in such a fashion. As you can imagine, this is incredibly damaging to a child’s sense of self.
