hopelessness

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He also devised several measurements that became widely used to assess the symptoms of various mental disorders and the risk of suicide: the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Hopelessness Scale.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

Hopelessness and resignation challenge the notion of California’s exceptionalism and another aged trope.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2021

Hopelessness helps no one, although that’s often how I feel, too.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

Hope and its doleful twin, Hopelessness, might be thought of as the co-muses of the modern eco-narrative.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

Hopelessness threatened to turn to despair as Fadi remembered Mariam’s tiny fingers slipping through his.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai