You find it hard to cope with daily tasks, feeling hopeless and incompetent and easily feel abandoned by others.

All too often that early introduction to traditional academics leaves children feeling flustered and incompetent rather than masterly.

But offering help to a man can make him feel incompetent, weak, and even unloved.

I was feeling vulnerable and incompetent.

His mother felt angry and incompetent about not being able to manage this problem.

He felt incompetent and worthless, unable to make decisions about his future.

And most of the things Shep does make Danny feel powerless and incompetent.

'You make me feel all limp and incompetent.'

Never before in his life had he felt so utterly incompetent.

At last, feeling grossly incompetent, I settled Caron at the table and told her the whole story.