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The Secret Life of Secrets

Hidden Brain

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Is There a Difference Between Keeping Secrets and Keeping the Secret?

Michael Wolraich: I'm wondering if you can talk about this idea that keeping secrets at some level damages our own view of ourselves, and in some ways, harms our ability to think of ourselves being authentic people. When we're holding a secret back from other people, we're not having these conversations about these things,. And this is what we can never realize if we don't talk about the secret with other people. People are generally understanding, especially the people who are close to you. Ah, you know, maybe it's going to be quite difficult to talk about the secret, but you can, and it often makes things better. W find you've also looked at secret keeping in...

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