Hi, Lennie, welcome to PsychCentral (PC).

No, you won't have your CPN and CSW with you forever but you won't be the way you are now, either! You have to think about both sides of the equation, getting better as well as having these great helpers in your life right now. As you learn to interact with them, you're learning to interact with others too. The struggles you're going through now are not different from the struggles one goes through getting to know any new, likeable people. You need to extend your interactions with the pharmacist down the street, your doctors, the grocery store clerks, etc. Everyone (even you :-) are here to help each other, there are always two sides to each situation; the take-away clerk is working because she wants a job and to have money but she's also "helping" feed you! Your smile and greeting to her, learning to commiserate about her job (standing on her feet all day? That can't be comfortable) and "share" your self and life with her is what you should be learning from watching and interacting with your CPN and CSW.

They want to help you and so, darn it :-) you should smile and be helped as best you can. Not answering the phone worries them because they do care about you. Learning to consider the "other" guy is an important skill. If you truly care about them too (as they do about you) then help them out by being helped and working hard to get well?