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Unlearning Independence: The Skill of Asking for Help
Did you ever actually learn how to ask for help? For most high-achieving clinicians and leaders, early academic ease created an automatic reflex loop: When things get hard, just work harder. In medicine, this natural tendency toward self-reliance is codified into a professional requirement, conditioning us to view independence as the ultimate proof of competence. In this solo episode of The Hidden Load, Dr. Santina Wheat explores the invisible burden of extreme self-reliance and why treating support as a last-resort crisis tool destroys our long-term capacity.
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