PSY-101 Update: Something to think about and respond to....
Next week in PSY-101 - Chapter 2: Self-Awareness - please read this weekend and be ready to discuss beginning on Monday (9/22).
Someone once said (anonymously) that "we are only as sick as the secrets we keep." This quote struck me as thought provoking - be ready to look at what this might mean on Monday.
Feel free to comment and have a good weekend.
Someone once said (anonymously) that "we are only as sick as the secrets we keep." This quote struck me as thought provoking - be ready to look at what this might mean on Monday.
Feel free to comment and have a good weekend.
7 Comments:
I think that your secrets are part of what make you who you are. Usually secrets are the part of you that you don't want people to see, that's why they are your secrets. Maybe hiding parts of you is the sickness.
I think that this is true. I think people should be open with who they are, and accept it. A secret reminds me of something that someone doesn't want to see in someone else or themselves.
i honestly believe this statement to be true. secrets dont only affect you but the people around you too.The more secrets we keep to ourselves the less we are ourselves in the long run.
Everyone has secrets. The secrets we keep are usually the ones we do not want others to find out about. Maybe because we are ashamed, regret it or simple because it would hurt them. If told at all, they are only to the people we have full trust in and believe that they will not share it. If everyone knew each others secrets, you would find out who people truly are. Not the person they try and pull off.
I think this can ring true especially on a mental health level. I've met quite a few of compulsive liars, and they constantly give classic text book definitions of mental disorders. A lot of the time they try to run away from the things in their life that are true, and live their lives in paradox.
Okay so first off I want to say I feel really stupid because I could not find out where to comment, and it was right here the whole time.
So heres my response...
I think the statement is true.
"Were only as sick as the secrets we keep" I feel its saying that by us keeping secrets from others or even ourselves that at some level keeping secrets is unhealthy and making us or our minds sick.
It may sound weird to everyone else, but it makes perfect sense to me. So yeah, thats what I got from it.
So to me, this quote means that the secrets you keep, somehow define you i guess.
I personally don't beleive that at all. Some people have some really horrible secrets, but that doesnt make them sick or a bad person.
They are just secrets. And plus, just because your keeping a secret, doesnt necessarily means its your secret.
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