I have talked directly to my manager, but it is frustrating. He will promise to do something and not do it. For example, I was assigned a project from his manager who told me that my manager would get me help since it has a short time period to get a lot done. I called my manager and he promised to shift some work and get most of my teammates involved, but never followed through. I asked again about it and got the same promise. Three weeks have passed. I have started asking my teammates directly to help me, but it is awkward because they haven't be asked to shift their work.

I know I am also overly sensitive to being treated as unimportant and overlooked, so that has to be heightening my stress about the situation. He is probably overwhelmed with everything else in our team and I am not a priority to him.