It’s certainly how I advise my friends to act with therapists. Get treatment but never forget that they’re an agent of the state rather than your friend, and the state is humiliated by citizens who are suicidal and lashes out at them preemptively to protect its own image. The U.S. health care system is such that being committed is a worse fate guaranteed than the slightly increased risk of losing a friend for not receiving enough therapy. This stance slightly increases the chances of my friends surviving life here, because they’re more likely to confide in me that they need help knowing that I won’t immediately narc on them to the state.