Comparing The Characters Of Bathsheba And King David

When Adam felt optimistic, he was more likely to take responsibility and went out and completed the command that God gave him to do outside the garden. Unlike King David, when we look at him, we see the incident with him and Bathsheba. David found that he was helpless when being exposed to the mere fact that he had committed a sin against God, he became ultimately pessimism. David was in a position where he was King and could have anything that he wanted. King David like the dogs was in a place where he could not get out of unless someone got him out. He could not see that he too was across the lake and needed to get to the other side but did not know how to just jump over into the safety zone. The dogs were being shocked with an electrical …show more content…
His environment changed, and he had to become resourceful just as the dogs in Seligman’s second experiment when they wanted to escape, they needed to emit the appropriate operant behavior, simply to jump over the barrier into the other compartment so they could get away from the shock (Seligman 445). David knew that the insane act would not be considered a healthy man’s way of life, so he went into survival mode to save himself. David’s personality, therefore, takes on an optimism explanatory style and that is to prevent helplessness. David made a decision that changed his whole personality and redefined how he saw himself. He knew that he was a disappointment to God by being disobedient, so he begins to pray, create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit in me, so he could take his rightful place as a man after God’s own heart. David knew that God still loved him and that gave him hope the optimism he needed. David did not let learned helplessness depress him to the point that he had to give …show more content…
I felt strange at first not wanting to be seen with a cane but my I could not stop living because I did not walk well anymore. I took off from there and developed optimism explanatory style behavior. It’s amazing how you don’t know that you’re depressed, and you just call it another sickness until you study it and see yourself. I can truly say that depression is a sickness and if it’s not treated, it can get the best of you or it can take you out. I told my doctor upon one of my visit that I believed I had depression and he gave me a medicine. I took it for a month and when I went back He ask me did I need more and I said no, the question from him was why. I answered and said I put down the pill and pick up the Bible and started talking and trusting God.
Depression is nothing to let fester and not get help. Seligman conducted experiments on the young and the old using optimists and pessimism explanatory styles. His research took him further and further to the point that he researched same cultures but in different environments and found that Learned Helplessness occurred after they observed others, helpless