Everybody has kept a secret at least once in their lives, and chances are you might be keeping one right now. Hiding a part of yourself from the world isn’t really wrong, but it’s something that could weigh heavily on your conscience.
Minor secrets aren’t such a big deal to folks, and they might not even worry if everything came out into the open. On the other hand, some people have big skeletons in their closet that could ruin their life if it ever came out, which is why they’d never tell even their loved ones. This list is full of shocking things folks will never open up about in real life, but are willing to share anonymously on the Internet, so hold on to your socks.
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#21
I'm gradually losing my ability to feel anything like I used to feel. Paranoid schizophrenia, psychopathy, who knows? Things have just been rough for the past couple of years. I'm not well and can't really afford to have someone, maybe, help me sort things out for $90 every other week.
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Most people hide things about themselves or their lives that they don’t want others to know, but sometimes friends or loved ones need a secret-keeper. That’s when a person has to work extra hard to keep quiet about something that another person has told them in confidence.
Research suggests that keeping someone else’s secret increases feelings of intimacy, but it can also create a sense of burden. This is especially true when the information involves a person’s social network, which is why they might feel mental worry about hiding the secret.
#22
Im completely depressed and isolate myself from friends. I'm tired, work is tiring and nothing is able to bring me joy. I recently got tickets for a band that I've been wanting to see for 16 years and not even that brought me any joy.. I used to have the energy to try and make new friends everywhere and now I'm just burned out..
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#23
When I’m ascending or descending stairs, the last step has to be with my left foot. I don’t mention anything because I don’t want people to mess with me, it’s my little secret. Oddly enough, I’m not OC about anything else.
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#24
I know one of my 'very straight' friends has a crush on me. I'm a queer woman, and I've been open about it almost since I figured it out a few years ago. One of my friends is a very headstrong, always-in-control kind of person. She has always given me queer vibes but has repeatedly shared she's very straight (unprompted). As a joke, we made lists of fictional/celeb crushes. We shared some stuff from them with each other, but she never let me see hers entirely until, at some point, she scrolled a bit too far, and there was my full name in there. She panicked and quickly scrolled back up. I pretended I didn't notice and never brought it up. I am not attracted to her, and we are both currently in separate relationships, but I hope she's doing well. I wish she'd talk to me or someone about this, but maybe she's still figuring it out herself.
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Keeping secrets has always seemed like a fun and exciting thing to do, but, in reality, it can actually affect a person’s mental well-being. That’s why the phrase “honesty is the best policy” still holds true to this day, and might be a great idea to put into practice.
Now, in the spirit of sharing secrets and being truthful, is there anything you’d love to share with all of us? We’d all ears, and we promise we won’t reveal what you’ve told us to anyone, pinky swear.
#25
I have a crush on my pharmacist. But it's complicated. I sense that the feeling may be mutual from the way he acts, and I was expecting him to ask me for coffee until I realized that either I'm interpreting his behavior the wrong way or he can't ask me out because of pharmacist and client boundaries. It's been 6 months like that, and I guess I will never know! I could change to a different pharmacy for repeat prescriptions. However, if he is not into me, I would risk to look like a creep or obsessive person and I would never recover from the embarrassment!
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#26
Pretty sure I'm obsessed with being in a relationship, and I've started finding any woman that talks to me attractive.
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#27
I'm the reason my cousin is mentally handicapped.
We are the same age, and when we were 7 our grandpa bought dirt bikes for us. Well we decided to make our own trail in the woods, took the entire summer. I put this tree branch purposely at roughly head level, just so he could duck under it and it would look awesome.
The branch was heavy, but I was able to sit it conveniently between two trees. He was more brave than me, so he went first.
Being dumb kids, we didn't wear helmets.
I yelled for him to duck, but he didn't and hit his head on the branch, got knocked backwards and hit his head again straight into the ground.
I told everyone it was an accident. Grandpa sold the dirt bikes, I didn't see my cousin a whole lot after that.
That was nearly 25 years ago. I see him every Christmas, and it's always the same. In a wheelchair, being spoon fed by his mom. He can't speak, he likes to draw funny shapes.
He most likely doesn't remember the incident, and I don't know if he remembers me.
But that's what haunts me.
We are the same age, and when we were 7 our grandpa bought dirt bikes for us. Well we decided to make our own trail in the woods, took the entire summer. I put this tree branch purposely at roughly head level, just so he could duck under it and it would look awesome.
The branch was heavy, but I was able to sit it conveniently between two trees. He was more brave than me, so he went first.
Being dumb kids, we didn't wear helmets.
I yelled for him to duck, but he didn't and hit his head on the branch, got knocked backwards and hit his head again straight into the ground.
I told everyone it was an accident. Grandpa sold the dirt bikes, I didn't see my cousin a whole lot after that.
That was nearly 25 years ago. I see him every Christmas, and it's always the same. In a wheelchair, being spoon fed by his mom. He can't speak, he likes to draw funny shapes.
He most likely doesn't remember the incident, and I don't know if he remembers me.
But that's what haunts me.
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#28
I don’t really want to be with my girlfriend romantically, but she’s my best friend, and I don’t want to lose her from my life, so I won’t break it off.
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#29
I thought I learned how to tie my shoes when my mom showed me in pre-k and I went around telling everyone I knew how to tie my shoes. The next time I try to tie them though it turned out I forgot how, but I was too embarrassed to ask for help. I didn’t learn how to tie my shoes until I was 18 or 19.
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#30
I fantasize about having superpowers and what I would do if I was granted them. It’s mainly evil and selfish things. 10/10 would become a villain.
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#31
As a 16 year old, despite my better judgement, I agreed to be the girlfriend of a 19 year old boy I met in an online game. After a few weeks the messages he was sending me took a creepy turn and my reaction was to uninstall the game. I've never had any other relationship that was even borderline romantic.
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#32
I cry myself to sleep at least once a month, over a combination of things - I have no friends, no job, no love life, I miss my niece, and I feel useless.
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#33
I’m a year and a half into sobriety, but I often think I was a better, more successful wife and mother when I drank.
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#35
I'm pretty sure I dont feel emotions like other people. When I was a kid, I use to practice smiling and laughing in the mirror because I could tell it was weirding people out when I didnt react properly. I live a really normal, average life so I think it would surprise most people.
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#36
I'm not fine. I'm tired all the time, and I don't have the energy to be upset or worried about it anymore when yet another potential medical issue pops up. I don't have the bandwidth for it. I need things to be just... "normal" for a little while, but chances that I'll ever get that are extremely low.
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#37
The night my mum passed away, my brother called earlier and said it was not looking good. I asked if I should jump on a plane and he said he wasn't sure. I delayed, and she passed. She waited as long as she could, as I slept 1000 miles away. It eats me up.
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#38
That I never feel good enough. My ex wife cheated on me and that ended our 20-year marriage. Then I dated a woman for about 8 months and it seemed like it was going well until she said she wasn't ready to be in a relationship. I heard from a mutual friend that she started dating someone else a few months later.
I'm a good dad and friend, but the two women I loved would rather be with someone else.
I'm a good dad and friend, but the two women I loved would rather be with someone else.
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#39
I dream constantly (weekly) about a prior relationship despite being in my current relationship for 4 years.
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#40
I stole a bunch of money from a previous boss years ago. She had to have known, yet she never said anything to me. I wouldn't do anything like that now. I was younger, dumb, broke, and a single mom.
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