Sentences with phrase «someone feeling helpless»

Then, when the going gets tough and we struggle, we feel helpless because we think what we «are» isn't good enough.

This subtype «is the result of feeling helpless at work,» according to Wilding.

If they choose to believe they are a victim, they will feel helpless and alienate others by making them feel guilty.

It's so easy to feel helpless in these moments, to feel that you aren't doing or can't do your part.

Merchants in these sorts of price competitive situations can feel helpless, as some hapless competitor irrationally lowers prices.

Without a master, a dog already feels helpless and terrified in the big world.

Like other Puerto Ricans far from home, Alanna Farrell Colon, a Johns Hopkins University sophomore, felt helpless when Hurricane Maria hit the island.

These barbaric acts can make us feel helpless, fearful, angry, and even guilty, because there seems to be little we can do to stop them.

Watching people struggle with suffering and hopes for healing leaves the rest of us feeling helpless.

When a friend is dealing with private grief, we feel helpless.

In fighting with her about whether to stay or go, I felt helpless in the face of her panic attack and angry tears, but my lack of visible empathy only made our conflict worse.

We feel helpless and lack control over decisions that affect the life of our world.

I feel helpless.

It is hard to feel sinful about something that seems inevitable, and to an unprecedented degree our age both is unconscious of sin and feels helpless before it.

In the dark night you can feel helpless, unable to control or understand your spiritual life.

The liberal religious community has felt helpless before the dramatically changing sexual mores of the final decade of the 20th century because we have allowed ourselves to remain trapped between the inflexible moralists on one side and the freedom - worshiping secularists on the other.

There is nothing more wrong than a child who suffers and a parent who feels helpless to make it stop — I need my Saviour who suffers with us, my God who weeps, who longs to gather us to himself as a mother hen gathers her chicks.

Every day, we are inundated with so much outrageous news that it's easy to lose hope or to feel helpless.

He notes that a psychic closing off can serve a highly adaptive function; it protects survivors from feeling helpless and is our defense against death anxiety and death guilt.

Power is also absent — members can feel helpless and despairing.

The effects of post-traumatic stress, psychosis, adjusting to a new country, etc., was sometimes overwhelming for me to observe and I often felt helpless to alleviate their pain.

Perhaps we resort to Christianese in the context of suffering because it is so freaking terrifying... for both the person suffering and those who feel helpless in the face of their loved one's pain.

I remember feeling helpless, unsure what course of action to take.

If you've witnessed the cycle of abuse before, you're aware of how difficult it is to observe without feeling helpless.

So they feel helpless to change them.

I felt helpless to loose the last bit of weight that I wanted to until I discovered the macronutrient diet.

This past week I have been wrestling with perspective, circling subjects that leave me feeling helpless and trying to gain an outlook where I have peace, no matter what.

«I think many of us feel helpless in the face of environmental challenges, and it can be hard to know how to sort through the advice about what we can do to make a meaningful contribution to a cleaner, more sustainable, healthier world,» Paul says.

I feel helpless and torn.

I feel helpless.

«I feel helpless, angry, and upset,» Cristina said to me this morning.

I feel helpless as each new headline appears about a new tragedy.

I felt helpless precisely because I still had that iota of control.

I can't help but to admit I ha» te this so called ** NO SWEARING ** FA a bunch of us + less human beings, them and there refrees make us feel helpless.

«Coming out with a felony, you just feel helpless,» Ray says.

no no absolutely not, you should stop thinking that all arsenal fans would be great guys and would love the club very much, every team has bad / very bad fans and nope i have had arguements with him a lot of times and you are wrong you should look up in the dictionary that isnt even close to irony thats simple cynism he ridicules the team and mocks it at every chance he gets... and for my feeling even if he is frustrated and feeling helpless, people who react like that because of frustration and helplessness are just weak - minded and lack conviction

You said: My comment above on FB was prompted by friends whose kid is SO entirely dependent on his parents to sleep at night, that he is depriving them of their couple time and their desperately needed sleep, and as a result, they are constantly frustrated, at odds with each other, and left feeling helpless and misunderstood and «joke» about divorce.

I feel helpless, and concerned that I'm not going to be the good dad I always thought I could be.

One of the most distressing things we go through as parents is when we are put into a situation where we feel helpless.

Colic can take away the joy of parenting and make caregivers feel helpless and incompetent, despairing, and even angry and hateful toward the baby.

I want Daddy» it makes you feel helpless.

It can leave you feeling helpless and afraid.

Many nurses feel helpless and have shared they have never experienced such an intense emotional response.

After all, how many times has your baby been crying and you've been desperate to know what he or she needs, feeling helpless for lack of an answer?

Sometimes we feel helpless.

You mentioned you and your friends feeling helpless and also guilty for having delivered healthy babies this year.

While parents may feel helpless knowing their child is being teased, Freedman hopes these strategies help them.

Research shows that the wrong kinds of praise can actually undermine motivation and leave kids feeling helpless when they fail.

The overwhelming focus on negative aspects of life and conflict in the news colors our perception as well and can either numb or desensitize us or increase our general anxiety load, or leave us feeling helpless over events outside our control.

I felt helpless while she told me her story and I knew right away I wanted to help women have better experiences.