The emotional roots of surplus powerlessness are not the products of any single experience or set of experiences. These roots have been produced by the dynamic interaction between childhood experience, adult personal life, and the world of work - all mutually informing and shaping each other.
Reality is a seamless whole.
It exists as a totality, and every part of it shapes and is shaped by every other part. We can, for the purpose of describing it, break things up into analytically separable parts as long as we understand that this is just a way of speaking about reality. We have experienced pain from early childhood, a pain generated by our need to abandon parts of our fullest potential so that we could receive recognition from our parents, who both wished to have real contact and simultaneously felt connected to us only through the set of roles that they had learned and inherited. With such an understanding, they might have experienced genuine anger at a world that was now even deforming their relationships with the very children whom they most wanted to love - and their anger might have led them to struggle to change the world. Failing that understanding, they felt terrible about themselves, tried to hide those feelings from themselves, and ultimately participated in a process of making us feel guilty about our anger at them, to the extent that some of us even had to deny to ourselves that we ever even felt such an emotion.