This happens because psychiatric units will not take patients who are not "medically cleared". Meaning that, if a patient has any evidence of injury or medical

This happens because psychiatric units will not take patients who are not "medically cleared". Meaning that, if a patient has any evidence of injury or medical illness (or they think that the symptoms may be caused by something physiologic that has gone wrong -- leaving aside the fact that mental illness is physiologic at some level, you know what I mean) the psychiatric units want nothing to do with them.