I know I HATE having to talk to my professors about needing help. So when I come down to needing that I grab one of my friends who knows how to get me off my butt and gets me to contacting my professor. I normally will do an email to them first to just explain some of it out and then when I have a class with them I then go an talk to them or make an appointment for their office hours, and I bring a note card of what I'm going to need to talk to them about. It's scary at first but it's better than feeling like you have no place to go.