There’s a large part of me that doesn’t like asking for help. For some reason, saying “I can’t do this alone” has been something that a lot of us have been conditioned to do, and that’s soul-wrenching when you think about it. We’re social creatures, humans. We’re literally built to need help from other people, and there isn’t anything wrong with that. It’s almost impossible to think of someone great from history who’s made some enormous change to the world that did so alone. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t march alone. Alexander the great wasn’t fighting armies by himself. If they, at the end of the day, in some way or another, needed help, what makes you or I think that we can do whatever we have to do alone, let alone should?
Just because an issue only applies to you doesn’t mean you have to do it alone, either. Your mental health is yours alone but it will end up affecting the people you are closest to, yet you think it’s unwise to tell them that something is going on, or push them away when they try to help? Half of our development as the human race can be chalked up to someone getting help or helping someone. There are entire studies of medicine and career fields focused on helping people’s mental, but you think that you, someone who hasn’t been to school for these things, is a-ok to fight diseases and disorders you might not even know are there? Alone?
