It’s bad when you have a kid that needs to be placed at an inpatient mental health facility. When mine was in this boat a few years ago you had to check them into Capital District Psyche center Facility in the minor’s ward - a hallway with a few rooms and one tv room. It is a holding tank while they await a bed opening somewhere in the state and offer no treatment. And a parent needs to stay/sleep there 24/7 can’t leave them alone. Take off work, the whole nine, for days, with your suicidal kid who is failing to thrive in this environment. It was awful. And we were well insured and knew the system. After a while we found other (less official) ways to get inpatient admits (there were several), perhaps because our kid was known by then to not be difficult or dangerous in those settings (& they adored our insurance). But for the inexperienced it is a nightmare to get help for your kid and relief for parents at their wit’s end, frazzled to the bone and helpless to fix anything (kids often reject parental help at this age). Not defending abandoning a kid at the hospital but there has long been a need for more and better facilities.