Question

A young woman believes that everything negative that happens to her is her own fault, that she ruins everything, and always will. the therapist diagnoses her as suffering from a learned helplessness-induced depression because she attributes negative events in her life to:

Answer 1

These are internal, global, and stable factors. These factors are not from the outside world: she is feeling they are her fault (internal), the factors that led to the negativity are totally hers, in her mind (global), and they never seem to relent or lessen (stable).