How often can you/ do you ask for help?

[physicist13]

I hate asking for help. My T is available 24/7 and I’ve only called on him a handful of times....

How often (on average) would you say you call your supporters?

 

[SinkorSwim]

Well I see my T once a week. She is available to me from 8am to 8pm Monday through Friday. If I have any issues I email her as I feel like I am bugging her less that way. There have been several weeks where I don't contact her between sessions at all. There was one week I emailed her three times. She never says I am contacting her too much and she always says if I need anything between sessions she is there for me. I always feel guilty for contacting her. She never has said anything about not contacting her. Hopefully some day I will get over the guilt of needing to contact her between sessions.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I never wanted to ask for help because I thought it would be imposing, yet last winter I was so very sick two different times and I was forced to ask for help from some friends and neighbors for rides to the hospital and to pick up prescriptions or even to go food shopping for me.

It is still so very hard to ask for help, yet I do not overdue it and I don't want to take advantage of my friends. I only ask for help in dire emergencies because I live alone and when I was deathly sick last winter I stayed in side laying down for really long periods of time and once was a bad flu, and a very bad kidney infection. I was so sick I could not go online.

Now I try very hard not to get sick again this winter. I prefer not to ask people for help if I can do it myself which I do a lot.

 

[Cannottakethis]

How often (on average) would you say you call your supporters?

I talk to some every other day, some 2x a week or less.
Right now I’m going through a lot of stuff. Divorcing an abusive ex, my father is dying and I’m trying to go back to work. My cat is also very sick and he is literally my child.
So I’m talking to somebody every day right now. Sometimes it might just be texting and that can be enough to save my sanity.