Helplessness is a set of behaviours that is part of a pattern which repeats over time. If a person has an inner belief that they are powerless to overcome certain types of problems that life presents them with they will fail to overcome those problems. If you can help, empower, enable, a person to break one small piece of the pattern they have taken the first step to breaking the whole matrix of helplessness in their life. When they have behaved differently once they can no longer say, ‘I never…’ When they have behaved differently once it will be easier for them to behave differently one more time and then….? It is an amazing fact that sometimes just one instance of overcoming a difficulty that was once in the mental category, ‘impossible,’ will have a domino effect, toppling one impossible category after another. Empowerment is so satisfying. To see a helpless person become competent to handle difficulties is a far bigger thrill than handling their difficulties for them.