I also feel it’s easier to open up on here in the way we don’t have relationships as such so no worry we’re going to impact on them. I’m also careful who I open up to but I do have a couple of people I feel safe todo that with in real life. I wish everyone had that.

My relative who says they are a ‘closed person’ has had a lot of trauma in recent years, some of it is ongoing. They used to talk more but don’t now. I wonder if they are afraid too, afraid of burdening others or afraid of their own pain even.