Have you ever been in a mental hospital/psychatric institution?

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No, but I have been to them for family several times. I thought I might end up in one myself a few years ago myself, but it passed.

They create a controlled, different environment to help people sort themselves out and test what medication suits them. That's healthy. You can also easily encounter something terrifying.They're not as bad as people are led to believe, though, and there should be as little shame in going to one as you'd feel going into a "normal" hospital for anything else. Barring, perhaps, going into hospital to have something exotic dislodged from your anus, you embarrassment to humanity.