In hoher Qualität auch für deine Wand!

I mean he’s right, you can’t answer the questions they ask completely truthfully.

Honestly: If you are able to make a therapist appointment by yourself, the likelihood you pose such a high risk to yourself that you will be involuntarily committed seems rather low. I mean:

• You are functioning sufficiently to get through all the barriers put in your way to see a therapist
• You clearly care about your mental health
• You are able to think rationally

Passive suicidal ideation (e.g. thinking about suicide regularly) sucks but it's largely harmless in the short to medium term. And that's what involuntary commitment focuses on. Like, you're not going to be strapped down on a hospital bed because you said you don't go to the doctor for preventative care, even though it's deadly in the long-term.

This is in reference to people during a psychotic break. They behave irrationally and can be extremely hostile. So yes, unstable people running around in the public with knifes should receive psychological help, voluntary or not. Even if we lived in an anarcho-communist utopia these people will not vanish (although there might be fewer cases due to lower stressors) and must be treated.

because doing so would land me in a mental institution

Source? Most (Western) countries have requirements like "Must be in acute danger to themselves or others" to involuntarily commit you. Even self harm, as long as it doesn't put your life at significant risk, is insufficient.

Even suicide prevention hotlines don't send tracking information to emergency services as long as you aren't e.g. telling them you will kill yourself right before hanging up.

The fact you've been having these thoughts for 25 years makes me think you weren't in acute danger for (the vast majority of) that time.

Eh, voting is free, library cards are not (over here).

Well, when you hire British comedians to perform a British sketch, the result does turn out to be quintessentially British:

The two-hander sketch was originally written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre. After featuring on the stage, the German TV broadcaster, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), recorded the sketch in 1963 as an 18-minute black-and-white videotape recording, performed in English by British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

And the best part is:

The sketch is almost completely unknown in the United Kingdom

Not only do we watch that shit every year, we in fact made it! Or rather the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) did.

Ich hab jetzt schon mehrfach gesehen, wie Blitze hier einfach in Australien detektiert wurden. Das ist schon krass.

(Bitte stellt euch vor, ich hätte "year" mit "day" ersetzt)

Ergebnis: Luft aus dem Fenster zu blasen (natürlich mit einem weiteren geöffneten Fenster, durch das frische Luft nachfließen kann) funktioniert deutlich besser als sie von draußen hineinzuziehen. Und noch besser: Wenn der Ventilator nicht direkt am offenen Fenster steht, sondern mit etwas Abstand hinausbläst (optimalerweise irgendwo zwischen 50 Zentimetern und 1,5 Metern), wird der höchste Lufstrom erreicht, mit entsprechend stärkerem Frischluftzustrom.

Ich hab das Video auch gesehen, es wird aber nur erwiesen, dass Durchzug höher ist, wenn man aus dem Fenster rauspustet und auf der anderen Seite Luft reinströmen kann.

Ob man das auf alle Fälle übertragen kann, in denen kein Durchzug möglich ist, ist fraglich. Ich hab z.B. nur Fenster auf einer einzigen Seite, da ist leider nix mit Durchzug.

Vor meinem inneren Auge sehe ich bereits die Meldung:

Union und SPD reservieren 40 Milliarden Euro vom Sondervermögen für Hitzeschutz auf Autobahnen

"Der ungehinderte Fortbestand des Güter- und Personenverkehrs auf deutschen Straßen hat allerhöchste Priorität!", sagt Verkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder. "Wir werden alles unternehmen, um hitzebedingte Spurschließungen und Tempolimits dauerhaft zu verhindern.".

How many people in e.g. India would freak out if they had -10°C for a week? That's a relatively normal day in the middle of winter for Central to Northern Europe.