So what is weakness
To me it can come in many forms
Weakness can be physical or mental or emotional
Weakness can also we seen in asking for help in some peoples eyes.
Today I want to focus on asking for help
This is where I seem to be stuck.
I have spent my whole life helping others and being there
Since I have gotten sick I feel like this has been ripped away
I no longer feel like that responsible caretaker
I am needing to ask for help more and more
I am needing to recognize what I can still do and what I can’t
I am not understanding why this is so hard to ask for help.
Please please help me I want to understand this.
I truly want to live the rest of my life as healthy and grateful as I can with resentment or hesitation.
LIVING IN HEALTH 
To look at it from a sociological perspective, we develop role identities based on certain roles that we play in our lives. It sounds like you have a strong care-taking role identity that’s been unexpectedly yanked away because of your own health condition, plus you’re faced with the prospect of having to build this new role identity around help-seeking. Asking for help isn’t as simple as just saying the words; there’s all the identity stuff to work through too, which is totally possible, but it takes some time. When I’ve lost role identities because of illness, it’s required a sense of grieving almost to process that it’s part of who I was, but it won’t be part of who I am in the same way.
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Thank you so much for your input I truly needed to hear this.
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