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Yes, I was expecting this hotline to do more harm than good. It's not just for people who have problems themselves, it's also a hotline to report those who they care about. It's basically snitching on people because of their thoughts. It's a further entrenchment of our "police state".

Many times ordinary people have suicidal thoughts and don't carry out it at all. Subjecting those people to coercive treatments would be extremely harmful as doing so will further traumatize them. And it's also an affront to individual liberty, including the freedom to have negative thoughts. Sometimes such thoughts, if not interfered with by a meddling "nanny state", are an opportunity for growth and recovery.

And this hotline can also be used as yet another means of coercive control by a partner with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or other personality disorders. Where the partner can threaten to report the victim as suicidal or mentally unstable. Yes that happens, and it's surprisingly common. That's why here in the UK we passed laws against coercive control.