Almost nothing about asking for help is pleasant, or easy, when you're dealing with the points of friction we've been covering in this series on getting help with ADHD. In this video, Colleen and Brittany discuss annoying things like the cost of support and being confused about what support to even ask for.

What do we do when we feel too exhausted to even ask for support? Especially with ADHD, sometimes it feels like asking will be more work than just doing the thing ourselves. Or we might feel too exhausted to even think about what support we need! Brittany and Colleen both know this feeling, have seen it with their ADHD coaching clients, have many thoughts on what this exhaustion can mean, and thoughts on how to emerge from it.

Especially with ADHD, Sometimes we worry that we are "bothering" people when we ask for help or support. Join Colleen and Brittany as we discuss why this is such a struggle with ADHD, offer countermeasures to overcome these fears.

Does the thought of reaching out to get support from someone else generate some level of fear for you? You're not alone. It is *actually* more difficult-- and scary-- to ask for support when you have ADHD! Brittany and Colleen discuss some different examples and levels of intensity of the experience of asking for help being scary.

Is it better to do something by ourselves, or do it at all? Colleen and Brittany discuss the myth of total self-sufficiency and why it is a struggle to ask for and find help when you are holding yourself to an invisible standard of going it alone to accomplish goals.