I Need Your Help

Asking for help always involves risk, especially when you’re struggling emotionally and needing to live your life.

Unfortunately, there is a widely held belief that you have the power to control your mind. This thinking assumes that only weak personalities struggle to manage their emotions.

Agreeing with this false narrative supports your feeling embarrassed, ashamed, and stigmatized, which can become barriers to asking for help. So, you hide your problem.

The decision to move beyond this mindset to seek help is complex.

How do you share problems when predictably, those in your inner circle will say, “you can power through this”?

You know in your heart that the mantra of “stay strong” will not help you.

How do you find the right words when struggling to describe your need for help?

The decision to change

The first step in healing is often permitting yourself to seek help.  Yes, you need to reach out for help!

You can finally admit your daily effort to appear “normal” exhausts you.

Today is the day to share with someone.

What comes after saying, “please hear me, I am struggling emotionally”?

It should not be so difficult to share emotional struggles with those who care about you. Intellectually, revealing your true inner self makes common sense.  Yet, opposing feelings of shame and embarrassment create emotional barricades.  But the facts remain that you need help!

Next steps

My name is Stephanie Durruthy.  I am a board-certified psychiatrist, award-winning book author, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

People struggling emotionally often experience universal difficulty in expressing their needs in communication.   When feeling overwhelmed, it isn’t easy to use your words effectively.

Solution

Decades of providing clinical care led to my awareness of this void in mental health education.

The I Need Your Help tool gives you language to describe your feelings and behaviors in difficult emotional conversations.

It is difficult when feeling overwhelmed to communicate your problems that need help. This simple printable program becomes your communication workaround. Use it to reduce the embarrassment and awkwardness that limits your ability to express yourself.

You and those who care about you have a clear and understandable tool to start emotionally charged communication. Print the checklist each day to share your progress easily.

Download the I Need Your Help worksheet and get the conversation started today.