How to seek help as a minor whose family doesn’t believe in therapy?
I’m currently in high school and ever since I was in 7th grade I’ve really wanted to have a therapist. When I brought it up to my family I just got told that “mental health isn’t real” and its a waste of money so I figured I couldn’t do anything about it and kept going with life as usual. I don’t think I can do that anymore though, my sister (who I live with) has only been getting increasingly abusive and threatening to kill me, lock me out, and saying she hopes I get raped. She threatens to make me live with my dad, who’s a pedophile and alcoholic, or with my mom, who is also really abusive and turned a blind eye to our other sister getting molested back when she was around my age.
Nobody in my family has sought out mental help other than my sister who experienced that, but she’s genuinely reached a point where it’s hard to tell if she might randomly lash out or get aggressive. Mental health has always been a topic that’s been ignored in our family and never treated as real, if you had issues you had to just tough it out. I know I can’t live like that and have already reached a point of attempting several times, I need somebody to at least talk to but I can’t find help as a minor. I’ve tried looking online but you always have to give your family’s contact information as a “just in case”, but that’d literally just make my situation worse if my family found out about it.
Ive also really wanted to get a psychiatrist or just find a way to get medication I might need, my sister who actually bothered to get one got diagnosed with bpd, mdd, and other things I can’t remember. I want to make sure I’m taking care of myself if I have any mental health issues that require proper treatment, but my options are so limited being that I’m too young.
At the very least I need a therapist, are there any work arounds or anything I can do to find one? Im aware the laws when it come to this type of topic differ from place to place so I might as well add I’m from New York, Ive tried doing some research but everything I find says I need a guardian or something.