“Action” is different from involuntary commitment. All I can say is that out of the many thousands of calls yearly to the Seattle-area hotlines, the number of

“Action” is different from involuntary commitment. All I can say is that out of the many thousands of calls yearly to the Seattle-area hotlines, the number of direct involuntary interventions was on the order of a few dozen a year at most. Yes, if you are in imminent danger, people will come to you and try and talk you out of it, and there are lots of voluntary hospitalizations, but it’s honestly rare for someone to be taken against their will and usually only happens in cases of heavy psychosis. The thing with a therapist is that many are not set up to be crisis counsellors and so they will want you to talk to someone who can help in a crisis rather than once a week for an hour. But that’s all.