I actually had to be admitted to a Psych ward once. It was only because I couldn't get more than 2-3 hours of sleep per night for over a month, so naturally it was driving me to insanity. Literally. I would drop to the floor screaming, pounding, throwing things all over the place. This was because I needed to be on a mood stabilizer at the time. When I seriously started talking about suicide, my parents just brought me to an ER because they didn't know what else to do since I had been to nearly every doctor around and they weren't helping. But they didn't have any idea they would put me in the Psych Ward. xD It was only for a day, though. I realized that I did not need to be there. My problem was relatively easy to solve compared to some others. It was just as it is always depicted in the media; a white room with a bed in the middle. The people there of course had much more serious mental illness(es) than I did.