Secrets Impacts Relations

Recent researches suggest secrets can negatively affect mental and physical health. The secrets become a problem because our brain tends to ramble toward the secret, which can lead to a reduced sense of well-being.  

The most recent Belgian study examines this subject that secrets in the family relationship make him or her less trustful of the secret-keeper, which creates a cycle that ultimately damages the relationship. 

Secrets in the family had adverse effects on health and tended to cause more guilt than keeping them. The University of Santa Barbara recent research suggests that unloading secrets help the spouse to stop worrying about the secrets, and it increases the self-esteem of the revealer. Oversimplifying these research findings indicates that secrets always cause harm and revealing them always makes things better. 

"There's enough evidence to find that secrets can cause stress and anxiety and affect the health and relationship both. As it increases insulin, and cortisol can create heart palpitations which affect the brain..."

Dr  Brijendra & Dr Kshama Shukla

My recent interview with the Dr Brijendra Shukla and his wife Dr Kshama Shukla concludes that "after revealing secrets made people feel better as long as they are not judged harshly for what they divulged. There's enough evidence to find that secrets can cause stress and anxiety and affect the health and relationship both. As it increases insulin, and cortisol can create heart palpitations which affect the brain. It further puts the risk of the body's insulin and cortisol, and it can create heart palpitations and affect the brain."

Although how well you can emotionally handle secrets does have to do with your sense of morality and empathy for other people.

An open secret is that people suffer adverse effects when they're not honest with their partners about things they might be hiding, such as cheating, a gambling or drug problem, bad investments, losing a job, or criminal behaviour.

If an individual not caught and don't feel anxious about the secrets they are keeping from a partner, marriages can suffer slow and effects due to secrets and lies. Truthfulness does appear to be a significant factor in maintaining couples happy in the long term. 

It's regrettable when someone opens up, and their partner rejects them. Hopefully, the large number of partners sees value in sharing secrets that deal with authenticity, challenging experiences, and learning from mistakes. 

Always honesty isn't something that comes naturally to everyone. But when people reflected on what makes for healthy relationships, honesty is still the best policy to practice.