For as long as I can remember, I have hated asking for help. I realize it's fine to be independent, but I don't like asking anybody for help with anything because I feel like I'm putting them out or bothering them.

The main problem I'm having recently is with my best friend. She moved a few months ago and is now almost 1000 miles away. We still talk occasionally through Facebook, texting and Snapchat. The other day I had sent her a Snapchat that was something to the effect of how I miss talking to her. She texted me a few hours later and said, "You do realize that you can text me any time you need or want to right?" I said yes but that it was part of my personality that I feel like I'm a bother to people and she said that's why she was making the point to tell me that I can text her whenever. Even after this I still have to fight the urge to text her daily because I feel like I'm going to become an annoyance to her.

Are there any steps that I can take to get over these feelings? I'm miserable because she's one of the only people that I can REALLY talk to about anything and everything.