If something leaves you powerless...???

"If something leaves you powerless and incapacitated, then repeat: 

‘Lā ḥawla wa lā quwata illā billāh’

(There is no might nor power except with Allāh), 

Allāh will make your matter easy."

Ibn al-ʿUthaimīn (رحمه الله),

  {Sharḥ Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn 5/522}