You don't actually know what you're talking about but like many others in here you put this over the top anti-AI current thing sentiment above everything including simple awareness that you don't know anything. You clearly haven't interacted with many therapists and medical professionals in general as a non-patient if you think they're guaranteed to respect privacy. They're supposed to but off the record and among friends plenty of them yap about everything. They're often obligated to report patients in case of self harm etc which can get them involuntarily sectioned, and the patients may have repercussions from that for years like job loss, healthcare costs, homelessness, legal restrictions, stigma etc.
There's nothing contrived or extemely rare about mental health emergencies and they don't need to be "emergencies" the way you understand it because many people are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years, with very high symptom severity and episodes lasting for months and chronically barely coping. Someone may be in any big city and won't change a thing, hospitals and doctors don't have magic pills that automatically cure mental illness assuming that patients have insight (not necessarily present during episodes of many disorders) or awareness that they have some mental illness and aren't just sad etc (because mental health awareness is in the gutter, example: your pretentious incredulity here). Also assuming they have friends available or that they even feel comfortable enough to talk about what bothers them to people they're acquainted with.
Some LLM may actually end up convincing them or informing them that they do have medical issues that need to be seen as such. Suicidal ideation may be present for years but active suicidal intent (the state in which people actually do it) rarely lasts more than 30 minutes or a few hours at worst and it's highly impulsive in nature. Wtf would you or "friends" do in this case? Do you know any techniques to calm people down during episodes? Even unspecialized LLMs have latent knowledge of these things so there's a good chance they'll end up getting life saving advice as opposed to just doing it or interacting with humans who default to interpreting it as "attention seeking" and becoming even more convinced that they should go ahead with it because nobody cares.
This holier than thou anti-AI bs had some point when it was about VLMs training on scraped art but some of you echo chamber critters turned it into some imaginary high moral prerogative that even turns off your empathy for anyone using AI even in use cases where it may save lives. Its some terminally online "morality" where supposedly "there is no excuse for the sin of using AI" and just echo chamber boosted reddit brainworms and fully performative unless all of you use fully ethical cobalt-free smartphones so you're not implicitly gaining convenience from the six million victims of the Congo cobalt wars so far, you never use any services on AWS and magically avoid all megadatacenters etc. Touch grass jfc.
Yeah I'm angry because I'd rather my loved ones at the very least talk to a chatbot that will argue with them that "they matter" and give them a hotline or a site if they're in some moment of despair and nobody is available or they don't want to talk to people instead of avoiding trying because of scripted incoherent criticism like stolen art slopslopslop Elon Musk techbro privacy blah blah and ending up doing it because nothing will delay them or contradict their suicidal intent.
It's not like you don't get this but following the social media norm and being monke hear monke say all the way to no empathy levels seems more important. That's way more dangerous but we don't talk about humans doing that or being vulnerable to that I guess.