If you are having suicidal thoughts (but can control them mostly) and also have self harm thoughts (but can certainly control them) and write about them explicitly, would you share them with a brand new therapist? Is the hospital a big and potentially unnecessary risk, and, furthermore, could she get CPS involved?
Also, would you share the following narrative? Or could CPS also then get involved if in the hands of the wrong therapist (I believe I may have shared this very thing in another thread--I toned it down a bit):