HELPLESS
75 th most common feeling overall · 0.17% of all feelings are helpless
Breakdowns
for people who feel helpless
Gender
breakdown
57%
43%
helpless
Age
breakdown
10s
20s
30s
40s
Season
breakdown
50+
25%
24%
27%
24%
Related feelings
mentioned with helpless
hopeless
powerless
suicidal
vulnerable
useless
frustrated
i feel helpless
and i don’t want
to let you go
a 23-year-old woman in melbourne, australia
i feel helpless please pray for my son
he needs your love
i feel pretty much helpless
i feel so helpless and empty
someone
97
someone
a man
B
A
A
i feel so helpless
a woman
i am feeling weaker and weaker
more helpless by the day
i feel so helpless watching you
wither away
someone
a woman
C
B
i’m 1400 kms away and i feel helpless
C
a 27-year-old woman
i just can’t get any
lower i feel totally
helpless and guilty
everytime i eat
someone
helpless
someone
D
adj.
1. destitute of help or strength
2. beyond help; irremediable
i have to step outside the box and educate myself on the health care system and politics to not feel so helpless
i was
stuck arguing in a restaurant with my girlfriend feeling helpless as i watched my relationship slip through my fingers
i feel so helpless and anguished by the ineffective systems and my own limitations of time money and abilities
i feel so helpless
i felt myself drifting into
my quiet little world
the place i tend to go when
i feel as though i am
helpless or drowning
Main reasons
Observations
loss of control
People most commonly express feeling helpless when they feel they don’t have control over a specific situation, such as when loved ones are
pain
sick or in pain. People also frequently feel helpless when they are confronted with things that are much larger than themselves, like most world
3. bringing no help; unaiding
and hopeless right now in the situation of the world today i frankly don’t see that these ideas have very much possible influence over a
illness
events, which they feel completely powerless to change. When they feel helpless, people often also express feeling hopeless, useless, and lost,
4. unsupplied; destitute
situation involving millions of people and trillions of dollars
suffering
and say they want to cry.
i feel so helpless but you can’t just go out and buy a friend