What was the biggest thing you kept from your loved ones so as not to worry them?

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1. The biggest thing I kept from my loved ones was the fact that I was struggling with depression and anxiety.

2. Severe depression

   It’s funny because I’m the biggest beacon of hope in the family

3. The elephant in my room.

4. The fact that, after my partner died unexpectedly, I had a stress-induced cardiac event and was diagnosed with PTSD.

   I started paying a therapist to burden with my problems, don’t really want to foist them on my friends or family too.

5. didn’t tell them i tried to jump off a bridge multiple times.

6. What I truly wanted in bed and how satisfied I felt with what I got.

   That’s the specific thing that ended my marriage. The lesson: expect your partner to be good in bed, and leave them if they don’t meet your needs.

7. What I was going through while my first marriage was falling apart. They still don’t know, even though the divorce was ~15 years ago.

8. Who I really am.

9. I used to deal with incredibly horrible suicidal thoughts. And the night I finally decided to do it ,I set everything up and that’s when she called me and told me ” hey , I’m sorry for saying those things, I was angry and I just love you so much that I took you for granted, I can’t lose you”

   I played it cool, but she doesn’t know she saved my life that night.

10. Car accident.

    One day my father came to see me, he asked about the new car. I was like “oh no big deal, I got in a crash 8 month ago”.

    He looked at me weird.

11. All the times I’ve genuinely considered ending it

12. My reddit account