How to Ask for Help & Know When You Need It

December 21, 2022

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Crisis Counselor, Crisis Text Line

This article was co-authored by Laurel Schwartz, MSW. Laurel Schwartz is a Crisis Counselor for Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that has exchanged over 100 million messages with people in crisis around the US. Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 crisis support via text, and those in crisis can text 741741 to be connected with a trained Crisis Counselor. Laurel received her Master of Social Work from Columbia University in 2019, and has been featured on Forbes’s “30 under 30” list for her work building the Crisis Text line brand. This article has been viewed 271,392 times.

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Updated: December 6, 2022

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Asking for help is easier if you can articulate your needs. You may want to make a list of what you need help with and rank the importance of each need by assigning a number from 1-10 to every item. Next make a list of people who could help you and match each person with a particular need that they are best suited to aid with. When asking for help, clearly state your need in a positive, self-confident way. Finally, when you do receive help, thank those who stepped up in a sincere and specific manner. To learn more from our Counselor co-author, like who to ask for help for your situation, keep reading the article!