For people who are very self-reliant/high-agency, allowing the feeling of helplessness is one of the most powerful pathways to feeling supported and not alone in your problems. My definition of helplessness: Experiencing that there's nothing you can do to change the outcome.

Agency can be formally defined as the subjective feeling of having control over one’s actions and their consequences…Put differently, you don’t feel as though life is just happening to you, with your only choice being to sit back and accept it all. Instead, you feel as though you are an active participant in your life; you are making things happen.