You can inherit a problem without inheriting helplessness.

Problems arrive uninvited and often through no fault of yours. Inheriting the problem is unavoidable; inheriting the belief that nothing can be done is a separate thing that tends to come bundled with it. You can hold the unfairness and still look for the handle.

When you find yourself carrying something you did not create, ask what specifically is still available to you. It may be small: a conversation, a boundary, a piece of information. Start there rather than at the size of the injustice.