Your Happiness: How Keeping a Secret Changes Your Mental Outlook

Are you keeping a secret? A big one? Is it healthy? Researchers have answers that might surprise you.

Sadly, if you're keeping a big secret, it may not only be stressful, it might actually decrease your overall happiness and make you feel physically burdened down. Researchers at Tufts University found that people keeping deep secrets (for example: the truth about one's sexual orientation or infidelity) perceived life all around them as more daunting. When researchers asked them, for instance, to gauge how steep a hill was, the secret-keepers were more likely to believe it was steeper and more insurmountable than those who weren't keeping a big secret.
So interesting!