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<title>Experience Project Stories for the Group: I Hate Asking For Help</title><description>Stories users on Experience Project have submitted for the group: I Hate Asking For Help.</description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/group_profile.php?g=19164</link><item><title>Pride Goeth Before a Fall....</title><description><![CDATA[ I suppose the saying about pride going before a fall could well explain why I've crash-landed so many times.  I just am so blazingly ind...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=705158</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=705158</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:36:42 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>But</title><description><![CDATA[they help when i'm crying and they don't know what else to do or shut up in my room, or yelling at them, but i just can't get the words out.  ...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=578022</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=578022</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:03:40 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pride</title><description><![CDATA[It is probably just my pride getting the better of me... oh well. :( I have created a reputation for myself, though... people assume that I never n...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=569171</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=569171</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:43:36 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>I'd Rather Suffer Alone</title><description><![CDATA[ For some reason I have always been afraid to ask for help. I guess I have always been scared that it would prove some weakness in me and the ...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=569132</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=569132</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:06:38 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Please... Dont Make Me Ask</title><description><![CDATA[I hate asking for help. I was taught as a young girl that it was a sign of weakness, and my family was not weak. I was taught that others may ask f...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=524180</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=524180</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:12:26 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Trying to Change</title><description><![CDATA[My problem asking for help is when it's personal.  Always a loner and very independent, my parents didn't hover over me.  They always tol...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=495903</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=495903</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:58 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>I Hate It</title><description><![CDATA[i dont see the oint in me asking for help as i always think that there are other people in this world who need the help more than me.  when in...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=494051</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=494051</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:40:06 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Always Told I Wasn't Worth It</title><description><![CDATA[I hate asking for help because I feel like it justifies the thousands of insults and demeaning, cutting remarks my mother has made to and abou...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=475661</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=475661</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:53:36 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>But I'm Learning To!</title><description><![CDATA[Growing up, I had my mother and oldest brother to turn to for help... until I was 6 years old. My birth-father came back home for good, and suddenl...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=458761</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=458761</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:14:16 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Help?</title><description><![CDATA[I have never been fond of asking for help.  I would rather suffer with something or take two weeks to figure it out on my own before aski...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=454705</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=454705</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:49:40 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>I Really Do</title><description><![CDATA[I never realised just how much I hate doing this. Looking back, I suppose it was a lot easier to avoid asking for help because things had a tendenc...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=448695</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=448695</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:10:50 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Not Really a Story, Just a Feeling</title><description><![CDATA[I feel I hate asking for help in any way....(even though I maybe shouldn't feel this way) is because I feel most people ecspecially strangers ...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=444619</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=444619</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:20:28 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>I'm Not Sure If I Can</title><description><![CDATA[Asking for help has always been a frightening prospect to me. The shame of failure, feelings of neediness, and fear of being an unwelcomed burden a...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=441922</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=441922</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:13:14 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Not So Independent Anymore</title><description><![CDATA[I've never been very good at asking for help.  I've always been one of those idiots who would rather blunder through it on my own and learn ho...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=367136</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=367136</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:57:10 PST</pubDate></item><item><title>Afraid of Being Seen As a Loser</title><description><![CDATA[I don't feel co-workers/friends are losers when they ask me for help. But I do feel like one when I ask for help. I know there's nothing wrong with...]]></description><link>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=322662</link><guid>http://www.experienceproject.com/uw.php?e=322662</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:39:34 PST</pubDate></item>
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