On: Ask HN: Of your hard learned lessons, which do you wish could’ve been easier?

[fetus8]

By professional help do you mean therapy?

[DecayingOrganic → fetus8]

Sure, including but not limited to only therapy. For my case, Cognitive Therapy helped me a great deal with both depression and social anxiety.

It's just when you are not social, you may be reluctant to ask for help when it's actually needed the most.