Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?
LordMayor@piefed.social 10 hours ago
It’s been done with real postcards. Not that you can’t try a different take.
This site has been around since 2004:
Just don’t open it to comments. People don’t need that and it’ll get ugly.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Doesn’t it just not feel like confessing at that point? Maybe I’m just an attention whore?
LordMayor@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Nah. The therapeutic effect is from the confession not from the shitty advice or even confirmation or absolution.
Everyone wants attention. It’s one of our basic needs. But, it’s better for you to get it from positive things. Getting it from negative things is like getting your calories from soft drinks.
humanobserver@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sometimes people just want to say something once without it becoming part of their identity.
That’s different from attention.