If you are going to help me:

                        1. Please be patient while I decide if I can trust you.
                                  2. Let me tell my story. The whole story, in my own way.
                                  3. Please accept that whatever I have done, whatever I may do,
                                      is the best I have to offer and seemed right at that time.
                                  4. I am just a person. I am THIS person, unique and special.
                                  5. Don't judge me as good or bad. I am what I am, and that's
                                      all I've got.
                                  6. Do not assume that your knowledge about me is more
                                      accurate than mine. You only know what I have told you.
                                      That is only part of me.
                                  7. Do not think that you know what I should do: you don't. I may
                                      be confused, but I am still the expert about me.
                                  8. Do not place me in a position of living up to your expectations.
                                      I have enough trouble with mine.
                                  9. Please hear my feelings; not just my words. Accept them. If you
                                      can not, how can I?
                                10. Do not save me! I can do it myself. I knew enough to ask for
                                      help, didn't I?

                                         HELP ME TO HELP MYSELF.