Truth In A Public Forum

[nomads-quill.livejournal.com]

I apologize if this has been asked before.

I am going through another episode. A bit of the coming apart at the seams.

My primary journal is LJ. I keep a lot of stuff private. But I am curious: how do you all decide how much of yourselves -this thing we all share- how do you decide how much is public? How much of yourself/ves do you show?

Thanks for the thoughts. I am in all sorts of debate on this. Do I show this or not?

Comments

[shatterstorm.livejournal.com]

We have one journal that is "public" - people who see us as one person know us there. All is public there - the journal is a front to the world.

We have this journal for us. Usually what we write in it is for the purpose of helping us work better with one another. Things that we're thinking about, venting, writing down upsetting stuff for the purpose of processing it, etc... It has filters - there are things we talk about that can disturb people in ways they might not want to deal with and we try to respect that. There are also people who've commented on those things that have helped us in ways that awe us.