Here's a thought from just this morning. There is a hospital quite close by. It seems like the most likely place that one would go to voluntarily, right? Would it be entirely weird to just go in one day and ask to see what the psych area it is like? Or even if it is at a different location (it is a network of locations, and maybe they have separate specialities at different ones???) Maybe for some that would ease their mind, reducing the unknown factor. (Maybe it's not even allowed, who knows? That may vary from hospital to hospital as well...) But has anyone ever just gone in for a "tour" so to speak?

(First will ask my psych person any specifics from her end, hosp. privilege-wise. I have no GP or anything, she is my only health link here.)