Well...can I ask a couple of questions? If you tell your therapist, is he/she required to tell your parents? If no, then I'd definitely tell the therapist. It will give you a place to talk about your feelings and about strategies to help you cope with your feelings to avoid self-harming.

If the therapist does have to tell your parents, then you might try a gentler approach and say that you are having a very rough time and thinking about suicide and self-harm a lot, but that your parents' reaction is playing a huge part in how you deal with things.

If your therapist doesn't know already, I think that he/she needs to know how much your parents' anger is affecting you.

Please remember that your parents' anger is very likely about confusion and fear about mental health issues and maybe about money, too. (You may know more exactly what it's about - I'm making a best-guess.)

If you need a hotline member to talk to, some numbers are:

(1-800-784-2433) or

(1-800-273-8255)


or look at this page for numbers that may be specific to your county.

I'm glad that you've posted about this here on these forums. Hugs.