Do you open up to strangers about your personal problems?
By purplehaze
@purplehaze (661)
Philippines
January 23, 2007 12:36am CST
Have you ever experienced talking or sharing your problems with people you dont even really know personally. I know that some people do that nowadays through the internet or chatrooms wherein they ask for advice from people they dont know. Like me, i would have to admit that i have some postings here asking for advice or opinion regarding my personal life but the thing is people really dont know who i am. What I meant was asking other people personally, as in they can see and you can see them, like for example a guidance counselor or a volunteer organization worker.
Personally, i believe that there are some sensitive matters or things in my life that i wouldnt want other people, including my friends, to know about. I would feel very uncomfortable talking about my problems with people i dont know, unless it's through a medium like this wherein im assured that no one knows it's me.
3 responses
@shywolf (4514)
• United States
23 Jan 07
I haven't really done that, no. If you had been talking about on here, online, then yes. I open up a lot more online, not just because people don't know that it's me, but because I feel so much less shy online. I have found myself writing about things on here, in discussion replies, that I would not say to someone that I had just met. *laugh* But I really do not have anyone around here that I would feel like I could open up to that quickly. That would be really hard, because of my extreme shyness.
@purplehaze (661)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
yes me too.. that's why sometimes when i have problems especially regarding my relationships,i dont have anyone to talk to about it.sometimes, im even uncomfortable telling them even to my good friends cause im afraid of what they might think or say.
@misskatonic (3722)
• United States
23 Jan 07
Well, when I first started therapy, my therapist was a stranger. Which made it, in all honesty, harder for me to open up. Despite being a student of psychology myself, I kept thinking 'who is this woman, who doesn't know me, to tell me what my problems are? Who is she to judge me?'. Clearly, I'm not a very trusting person. But eventually everything worked out.
@ashuashish (154)
• India
23 Jan 07
i think we should not share our personal problems with any stranger .because if we want to share our problem than better we share it with those who are very close to us.if we are looking for any advice we should share it only with whom we know personally.
also if we are sure that the person i am talking is really intrested in helping us and he is capable of helping us then we can share our problem.
