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If I tell my therapist about suicidal thoughts, do they have to tell my parents?

There's usually a rule in therapy where "if you talk about doing harm to yourself or others" they have to tell your parents && possibly a psychiatrist or something. Just wondering on how that works..? Is it only if they think you are about to kill yourself that they tell someone?..

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  • 6 years ago

    Therapists cant tell if you are only harming yourself but not to a deadly point. If you tell them you are suicidal or are hurting yourself to a point of being deadly they tell.

    Source(s): Personal experience
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