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the feeling that the tunnel has no end, drawn by a brain that's drastically wrong
means The state of believing that things will not improve and that no effort can change them — a heavy certainty that the future holds nothing better.
from Built straightforwardly in English from 'hope' plus the suffix '-less' (meaning 'without,' a cousin of 'loose') plus '-ness' (which turns a quality into a thing you can name). 'Hope' itself is an old Germanic word, related to Dutch 'hoop' and German 'Hoffnung,' though its deeper roots are murky. So the word is literally 'the condition of being without hope' — assembled, brick by honest brick, from three modest parts.
learned traitDogs given inescapable shocks stopped trying, even when escape opened
clinical flagHopelessness predicts suicide risk better than depression itself
bad forecasterHumans routinely overestimate how long pain will last
the ironyIt feels like truth but functions as a symptom