What is the point of voluntarily meet a mental health practitioner, if you are not going to talk to him?<p>I agree that, in a situation with possible adversarial repercussions (e.g. social services), you should be extra-careful; and in the original post the author&#x27;s fault was that she did not recognize the self-harming question was such a situation. However, resorting to silence does not seem like a practical way to solve any problem -- it works with the police only because someone else (your lawyer) will do the talking for you.