giving him the glory

Today I discovered a website and while looking around came across a post by a woman with who had lived a horrible 10 years of abuse.  She was able to escape and marry and start a healthy life.  But no one knew her secret....she lived her new found life with this burden on her shoulders in which no one was able to grasp because she gave no one the chance.  We live in a world today where airing our secrets isn't so easy.  She felt the need to tell her secret to a friend one day and later was urged to tell others because it could help other women like her.  Why would this woman not feel she should yell it at the top of her lungs all the great things the lord had done in her life?  The reason is because we worry about what others will say....there is always someone who will judge you for your faults!  I am ashamed to admit I am one who judges without completely understanding.  I hate that I do this!  I hurts me when others do this to me and I am working to resolve this fault of mine.  I too have kept many secrets....I worry others will look at me and judge me as I have judged others.  I have pushed away important friends in my life due to the fear of them figuring me out.  I have faced times in my life that I am not giving credit to the lord because of this fear.  I feel I need to pray about this to ask how I can talk about personal and still raw at times personal issues.