Learned helplessness is a mental state in which an people are forced to bear aversive stimuli, or stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are “escapable,” presumably because it has learned that it cannot control the situation. You can control and overcome this mental state by recognizing that it is not you but the environment that is affecting you. At which, you can talk control and overcome the feelings of helplessness.