Interpersonal Communications

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re as women thinks self-disclosing as being emotionally ill. Both men and women are more likely to disclose more information if it’s in a temporary setting, where they feel they’ll never see the other person again.
Disclosing has rewards and risk. It helps you discover yourself on a more in-depth level then before. It helps achieve a closer relationship with the person you’re disclosing to. Disclosing may even help you lessen your likely hood of mental illness, by allowing you to get your feelings out in the open. Though too much disclosing could be damaging in places like school or work. The information could be turned around and used against you. This could keep you from getting certain promotions, or keep your name in the rumor mill. Regardless of how many times you may try to qualify something or take it back, once you have said something you cannot withdraw it. You cannot erase the conclusions and inference listeners have made on the basis of your disclosure.
Jeremy and I had a long talk about us to each other. We discussed who we really were and what made us. In doing so I disclosed a part of me that I hadn’t let anyone in on. Not my parents, my brother or even my female best friend. At times I don’t even think that I had let myself in on that part of my life. It was hard to tell something so emotional to someone else. I wa...