Sure there are mental health facilities. The burden beyond self committal is so onerous that a you have to be both crazy and retarded to be committed.
I guess they ask the question is he/she a danger to himself or society. If the joker in Colorado didn’t meet the requirement who does?
I guess you have to have to crap in one hand then while eating it shoot a weapon at a politician with the other.
It used to be a family member could call the mental hospital and they would come and pick them up. Then they’d spend 2-3 weeks evaluating them.