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What is powerlessness?


Powerlessness is the:


Sensation of being out of control with no apparent solution to help you to regain control.


Complete lack of control, authority, or status to affect how others will treat or act towards you.


Lack of capability to affect the realities of life out of your control like: how others act towards you if you will get a job you want If you will be accepted to a school you desire to attend what the weather will be if an accident will occur if an act of God will affect you or others, etc.


Lack of ability to affect or change the compulsive or addictive behaviors of others which affect you negatively. to make others exactly what you want them to be. to change past events which have had a negative impact in your current life. to insure that all of your dreams and fantasies for the way you want life to be will come true in reality. to completely change things you have attempted repeatedly to change with no success.


Presence of impulsive, addictive, compulsive, and obsessive behaviors in you which up to now you have not been able to get under control are causing your life to become unmanageable affect your life and are out of your control.


Lack of strength, competence, or skills to overcome realities in life that have no current apparent solution, such as the cure for AIDS and cancer complete recovery from cerebral palsy bringing back to life a loved one who has died, etc.


Recognition that there are for you people, problems, and things that are uncontrollable and unchangeable and out of your power to completely affect, control, or change.



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... an appalling lack of perspective (page 5)


... lack of control (page 21)


... a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight (page 37)


Lack of power ... by which we could live (page 45)



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