Hi,
 
I feel very anxious while asking for help from anyone. And this includes my friends, brothers, colleagues.I just can't ask for help. I feel that they wouldn't help me and this thought makes me extremely anxious.  Even the thought of asking for help makes me anxious. 

I also don't have a lot of friends. I only have 2-3 friends. This also greatly reduces my circle of people. I generally always help people, friends and strangers alike. But I haven't had the favour returned a lot of times. I go beyond myself in helping others and I do it because I like doing it. Helping others makes me happy. 

I don't know if this is me just having unsustainable expectations from people or me knowing the wrong set of people or me not knowing how to ask for help. 

Any thoughts/advice on this?