Secrets

In public life, it's been said: Never do anything that you wouldn't want to read about on the front page of the newspaper.

In mental health, we say: You're only as sick as your secrets. We also say there's a diagnosis for everyone, because everyone has problems. You could say everybody's a little crazy. When it gets to the point where you can't handle it, you can always find someone to help you figure things out. The harm comes from those things that you can't tell anyone.

There is a need for security, confidentiality, and privacy in work and in life. In those areas, it's easier not to know what you shouldn't know, to forget what you can't talk about. But there is also a need for communication, cooperation, and support in work and in life. In those areas, information should be shared as broadly as possible, because you never know who needs to know. People who don't seem to care may care. People who have no voice in the decision still have choices to make. And sometimes people mess up your plan unintentionally because they didn't know you had one!

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