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<p>A high percentage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists, will lose a patient to suicide. I don’t remember the number. Mental illness has a mortality rate and no therapist is powerful enough to stop someone who really wants to commit suicide. As for intent to kill others, of course, every step should be taken and it’s unclear if it was here, but it’s a big assumption to think that everyone planning to commit murder is going to tell a therapist and that every person under a psychiatrist’s care can be stopped from committing murder.</p>