Thinking of self-exposure. What do people think?

[LucidPanda]

Right... For the last few days I've been thinking of throwing alot of my own thoughts and personal life into the open. (Haha~ Facebook in reality.)

A large part of my social phobia is induced by my desire to be perfect. To not burden others with my own problems, or the fear that I'll run out of things to say if I give too much away. So I'm resorting to this as a counter-measurement.

Hopefully it won't cost me too much, what do other people think? Is there such thing as being too open?

 

[kayelle]

No, I think it's a good idea to tell some people if they're close to you. I guess being too open would be walking down the street telling everybody, but I've a feeling that's not what you're planning :lol:

I hid mine for 4 years before I told anybody. When I did tell them, it was an absolute weight off my mind. I'd been constantly making up excuses and lies over and over again, and I finally got to just explain that actually something was wrong with me, it made it so much easier! I told my parents and my three closest friends.

However, having said that, my friends don't invite me places any more, because they've started assuming I won't come, even though I'm practising exposure so I would love to go and try and interact with people again.

So this post didn't really give a conclusion then about whether you should tell them or not! However, telling people did get help with my perfectionism, telling people that I wasn't perfect and realising the sky wasn't falling! :lol: I would recommend telling a small amount of people.