If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.