Learned Helplessness in Kota — When Trying Stops Feeling Worth It
📰 THE PSYCHIATRIC BLUEPRINT | Kota Student Mental Health Series Dr. Akash Parihar | MD Psychiatry | Asha Wellness Sanctuary Hospital, Kota Begin With a Thursday Morning It is 9:17 AM on a Thursday. The test started at nine. Rohan is sitting in row four of a coaching institute examination hall — sixty students, the specific silence of a room full of people performing concentration — his paper open in front of him, his pen in his hand. He has not written anything. Not because he doesn't know where to start. Not because the paper is harder than expected. Not because he is panicking. He is not panicking. That is, in fact, the problem. He is sitting very still, looking at the first question — a Physics problem he has seen the structure of before, in some form, in the eleven months he has been here — and what he is experiencing is not anxiety, not confusion, not the particular cognitive scramble of a student who blanked. He is experiencing nothing. A flat, gray, complete absence ...