我们每个人都藏着9种秘密，它们正在侵蚀我们的内心

THE average person is keeping nine types of secret, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires. This can be a major burden, because secrets have the troubling habit of flashing into the mind unbidden. Confessing them can bring relief, but some secrets are too sensitive to be shared. To better understand how secrets affect people’s well- being, Bianchi and her colleagues recruited 240 people online and asked them to fill out a survey about their secrets. The participants indicated whether they held any secrets from 38 categories, including lying, cheating on a partner, stealing or having an addiction. …