Learned Helplessness and Enviromental Theory

Learned Helplessness is a word I was not familiar to at the beginning of this section. By now I know that learned helplessness is the hopelessness and resignation learned when a human or an animal perceives no control over repeated bad events. Meaning that it is a coping mechanism some people employ in order to survive difficult or abusive circumstances. One example of learned helplessness is that an abused child may eventually learn to remain passive and compliant in the hands of the abuser, since the efforts to fight back or escape appear impossible. This is because if the child remain calms and passive the anger of the abuser may end faster, because he is not fighting back, which means that he is causing "no pain", he might eventually get bored and stop. Many people stay in these relationships due to learned helplessness.
In relation to depression, learned helplessness takes a huge role in this type of events. Learned helplessness comes from stressful situations, trauma events, and childhood abuse. This is relates with the environmental theory of depression. This theory states that the environment is the responsible one for having depression, and this is the same situation that learned helplessness encounters. Stress is one of the events in the environment that calls upon itself depression and learned helplessness. If someone studies really hard for a test, and in the end of the test they think they did really good, but at the time that they get their grade back they flunked they will encounter the stress of the situation and evolve learned helplessness and depression. Learned helplessness to "understand" that no matter how hard they study they will never gets a good grade. Depression because they studies so hard, and did not even make the grade they deserved.
The environment is the one responsible for these situations both learned helplessness and depression. The theory of environment with related with both actions, and explains in a better way, that your actions in life will affect your state of mind and emotions.