What's the use of sharing things in therapy if they will get reported?

Any time you share something that threatens your life or another persons - they are legally obligated to tell your parents or authorities. That is the ONLY time the can break the doctor/patient confidentiality rule.

Im sorry your upset, but its best that it is not a secret and that you have support and help to quit and quite possibly save your life.

The only time a therapist can break patient/doctor confidentiality is when they believe you are a harm to yourself or others or when it comes to sexual or physical abuse like at home or something, they are then obligated to inform the authorities

Sigh. The amount of misinformation out there. First of all. It depends on the state laws. As far as I know, California is the only state in the process of granting minors rights to complete privacy when it comes to their medical records. So this whole confidentiality thing when it comes to minors is false. Parents/guardians have a right to therapy records and they have a right to know what is going on at all times (again, the exception being if you live in CA). Now, if the therapist is any good, they will make it clear to the guardian that the only time confidentiality will be broken is when it comes to self-harm, threat to others, or if a minor is being abused in some way. You’ve basically hit the only exceptions to confidentiality. The therapist is trying to make sure you are taken care of. If there was not a problem, then the case would not have been longer. I’ve seen quite a few cases. When the parents do what they need to do, the cases close out quickly and everyone moves on with their lives. When the parents are not doing what they’re supposed to, these cases drag on. It’s easy to blame the therapist, the case managers, the judges. But at the end of the day, it’s the parent’s responsibilities to do what they need to do. They make the cases longer. Not DCF. As for your original question. I know it’s hard to see past what is going on now. But the idea is to make things better in the long run. That’s what the point of therapy. To deal with stuff so that you’re not still depressed and cutting at age 30. And take it from me, you don’t just grow out of it, things don’t magically get better, and every milestone you wait for in order to become happy, they keep passing and you keep waiting for happiness. Take advantage of the therapy while you can. You don’t want to be telling a therapist these same things in 10 years.