By breaking silence and speaking the truth about ourselves to another person, we move out of darkness into light. Secrecy, when applied to our sin, brings sickness into our life. Confession is God's way of healing it. God desires openness and vulnerability among his people because he wants them healthy. That's why healing is impossible until we are willing to confess.
Secrets are the last domain of a person's control.
People who are quick to divulge other people's secrets vow to go to the grave with their own. Clinging to this erroneous idea, though seeing their faults, many fail to confess them, but rather pass by the wrongs they have done to others, so embittering their own lives, and shadowing the lives of others. It will not hurt your dignity to confess your sins. Away with this false dignity. Fall on the Rock and be broken, and Christ will give you the true and heavenly dignity.