How do you react to being needed?

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I tend to feel like I'm going to fail the other person and want to escape; however, I also have a very good idea of what it's like when this happens with you on the receiving end. Very confusing.

I like knowing that I'm important and that another person sees me as helpful in some way, but I don't like being needed because I know that it is the gift that keeps on giving in most cases.

I have to need first, in order to enjoy being needed by that person.

Other than that, I don't really enjoy being needed.

If the need is a genuine or a natural need like a child needs a parent I can handle that. But for others I find it very tiresome indeed. People seem to have a need to talk to me because I don’t talk back I just appear to be listening. They tell me their troubles and woes then oddly enough they tend to then solve them on their own because they talked them out. I get a big thank you like I’m some kind of guru and they’re on their way, until next time.

Because I rarely emote outwardly in real life, people assume that I'm a solid, unbiased individual who is good at putting things in perspective (which, to some degree, is true in regards to the problems of other people, just not my own). I s**t you not, I've actually been called, verbatim, "The ultimate unbiased source on everything", and not in a sarcastic way either. So people come to me with their life problems. I give my extremely inexpert advice, and they take it as gospel and thank me. People also think I'm smart, so I get all the academic questions too. I do enjoy my role of being needed by people, I just wish more people knew how much help I need myself.

I don't mind being needed, but I get exhausted over time and definitely need my alone time after a while to recpuerate. I can also assure you to go along the lines with the person who posted above me about wishing that others knew you needed as much help. I don't think it's a good idea to let others know you need a lot of help. You'll find people generally avoid you when you dump your problems on them. It's funny that others think we are more capable of handling their problems when we are no more capable than they are of helping others.
On a side note, if you are spiritual in any degree: watch how quickly people start viewing you as a fraud when you make one mistake that affects another's feelings. See how quickly people come to you for advice after that.

I like being wanted, hate being needed if that makes any sense. I don't mean helping ether, the I'd die with out you or 100 txt before lunch during the work day the were did you go if a text isn't answered in under two minutes ect.

I don't like it. It feels claustrophobic to me. Being needed is demanding... I have enough stress to deal with.

This.

Being needed makes me feel pressured, and anxious about letting the other person down, with a dash of chafing at the implicit obligation to be there for someone (even if it's really not a good time for me). Being wanted, on the other hand is less "I'm relying on you, you have to be there for me" and more "I like you, and although I can handle things on my own, having you around would make the experience so much better". Yes, wanted is a warm-and-fuzzy-maker.