"Why does s/he stay!? Why does s/he put up with that!?"

Learned helplessness, as a technical term in animal psychology and related human psychology, means a condition of a human being or an animal in which it has learned to behave helplessly, even when the opportunity is restored for it to help itself by avoiding an unpleasant or harmful circumstance to which it has been subjected. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation (Seligman, 1975).

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"often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key"

Unto Ashes

My gosh, this is some gorgeous music.

If you like Dead Can Dance, Rasputina, Bauhaus, E Muzeki, old school goth, renfaire music, etc. then you might enjoy Unto Ashes. Very evocative, atmospheric. I can see throwing a truly dark & decadent party to this music!

I am wondering why I never heard (or heard of) them before today!

Already the Bitch Boards have enriched my life :)

...I don't know what album to get first, or if I should take the plunge into the strange world of purchasing MP3s.

{edit} Ooh, yay! last.fm, my newest favoritest shiny thing.