You draw strength from your friends and family.

Drawing takes effort at your end. Strength does not travel across a room on its own. Someone has to pick up a phone, and on the worst days that someone has to be you.

The call you almost did not make is the one people describe afterwards as the turning point, which is a strange and slightly unfair fact about how help works. Nobody can offer what they do not know is needed. Two rings, and the thing you were carrying alone becomes something two people know about.