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🗓️ 23 June 2025
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Today's Oddcast - I Hate Asking For Help (Airdate 6/23/2025)
Why is it that so many of us feel gross asking for and accepting help? It often comes down to either feeling guilty about burdening others or being afraid of being let down...again.
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0:00.0 | We always have an odd one in the crowd, so it's kind of odd. |
0:02.8 | I just sightedly odd. |
0:03.6 | Doesn't that strike you as a little bit odd? |
0:05.0 | No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd. |
0:06.8 | It's the Bob and Sherry Oddcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show. |
0:12.4 | Now, here's the odd cast. |
0:16.4 | Judy Breed says, I'm a server-type person and I have a really hard time asking for help. |
0:23.1 | Yeah, it's almost impossible for me. |
0:32.5 | There are so many things that I could ask for help for that the people in my family or my friends would be delighted to do. |
0:38.0 | But I don't want to be a burden and I don't want to make them do stuff and I hate to ask. But what happens, Judy, and you probably know this too. |
0:42.3 | For people like us, we'll just go and go and go. |
0:45.3 | And then one day we just melt down and we're so angry and resentful and tired. |
0:50.2 | Because we don't want to ask for help, but we want people to read our minds. |
0:55.2 | And when they take us at our word that we've got this and we don't need anything, it's really difficult. |
1:02.2 | So, yeah, try not to be, as I tell my children all the time, try not to be like me, be like somebody else. |
1:08.0 | But try not to be like me. |
1:10.4 | Look at Judy. I'm also pathologically |
1:13.1 | independent and I'm tired. Yeah, that's what happens here. That's what happens here is we get |
1:20.2 | really tired and then we get really silent and then we need to go off and be alone to kind of |
1:27.3 | replenish and recharge. But then because everyone's so |
1:31.0 | used to having us be so available and so outward and so problem solving that when we take ourselves |
1:38.6 | out of the picture, then we're mad or, you know, there's a problem. And all of this could be alleviated just by saying, hey, I could use some help here. |
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