" It’s not true, and the people who say it is are gaslighting you. The truth is you learned helplessness from experiences of being helpless.

We unlearn helplessness by doing a thing—a thing that uses our body. Go for a walk. Scream into a pillow. Or, as Carrie Fisher put it, “Take your broken heart, make it into art.” Reverse the effects of helplessness by creating a context where you can do a thing. "

― Emily Nagoski , Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle