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  2. Learned helplessness - Wikipedia

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    Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused by the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness, by way of their discontinuing attempts to escape or avoid the aversive stimulus, even when such alternatives are unambiguously presented.

  3. Behavioral theories of depression - Wikipedia

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    This theory explains the importance of how someone consciously attributes the causes of events in their life. In 1972, Martin Seligman ’s learned helplessness theory of depression posited that if someone finds that their actions don't appear to help resolve their problems, they learn they are helpless, and this will cause them to become ...

  4. Martin Seligman - Wikipedia

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    Martin Elias Peter Seligman (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ ɡ m ə n /; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. [1] His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical ...

  5. Why Don Lemon's New Book Doesn't Reveal More Details ... - AOL

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    Don Lemon was ready to tell all about his experience at CNN, but decided against it.. The broadcast journalist’s latest book, I Once Was Lost, out on Sept. 10, takes readers behind the scenes of ...

  6. Don Lemon Reveals He Went on Antidepressants After CNN Firing

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    Don Lemon is opening up about his mental health.. The former CNN news anchor, 58, revealed during the Thursday, March 21, episode of the Tamron Hall Show that he had to go on antidepressants after ...

  7. Explanatory style - Wikipedia

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    The "learned helplessness" model formed the theoretical basis of the original Abramson, Seligman, and Teasdale statement on attributional style. [8] More recently, Abramson, Metalsky and Alloy proposed a modified "hopelessness theory". [7] This distinguished hopeless depression and more circumscribed pessimism.

  8. Don Lemon's New Memoir Sets the Record Straight: 'The ... - AOL

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    Don Lemon’s phone is filled with supportive texts from the women in his life – one of which reads, "The women of America love everything Don.". Lemon spoke with PEOPLE in an exclusive phone ...

  9. Lyn Yvonne Abramson - Wikipedia

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    She was the senior author of the paper "Learned Helplessness in Humans: Critique and Reformulation" published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978, proposing a link between a particular explanatory style and depression.