[thrown_22]

Whenever someone says that you should trust psychiatrists and the huge number of other similar professions I just point out that forcible admission is not rare and that they will share anything that they deem a 'risk', such as "I will shoot John if he chews with his mouth open one more time."

If you want to get someone to listen to your problems without telling them to anyone you can't do better than the catholic church:

>Priests may not reveal what they have learned during confession to anyone, even under the threat of their own death or that of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_confession_in_the_Cath...

Ironically enough the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Poland would often use uncorruptible priests to vent. Ones they had used the secret service to vet by entrapping them.

[citizenpaul]

Thats thinking outside the box though probably not good advice. I've been to more confessions that I can remember. I can tell you the vast majority of priests are going to mostly keep the topic to religion and joining the church and working on your relationship with god/praying. If you are suicidal this probably is not going to help in any meaningful way.

I suppose you can probably find a priest that is willing to talk but that may take some time and eventually they are going to start cold shouldering you if you don't join the church.