If you get, say, depressed because of your life being constant shit, how will going to a mental institution help? How does therapy help?
It’s not like therapy is going to solve the problems you face in life, like lack of money, friends, bad job, etc? I guess I’m asking what is the purpose of therapy and mental institutions?
Those are the requirements to get involuntarily committed, they’re not just for extreme cases.
You can recognize you are a danger to yourself or others and voluntarily commit, or if you believe you can’t commit to therapy without external help you can also voluntary commit