I had repeat bad experiences with modern society's idea of "help." That being said, I do believe in encouraging someone to try the available recovery resources. What failed me, might work for you.
If it's not going to put you in financial trouble, then you could consider starting with therapy. I'm going to assume for now that you have a decent idea of what therapy is supposed to be about, what to theoretically expect. But if you have questions I would be willing to explain more from my own experience.
The mental health system likely works very differently in other countries. But here where I live, the therapist will most often talk to you about your life experiences, your thoughts, your problems, and healthy coping strategies. They will probably ask at some point if you are interested in pursuing medication as a treatment option. If yes, they can refer you to a psychiatrist, who are the ones that do the actual diagnosing and prescribing. You decide if continuing to use these services is beneficial to you. If you want to stop seeing the psychiatrist, they will need to figure out a plan for your medication, which in this case would probably mean a plan for tapering off the med(s). With a therapist you can cancel their services whenever you wish, although I have heard some psychiatrists are reluctant to continue prescribing meds to patients that stop going to some form of therapy.
I have been in a psych ward once. I was having an emotional meltdown and told my therapist I wanted to die via text. But I never outlined a plan. I drank myself to sleep that same night; I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick and needing to use the bathroom, checked my phone, and my therapist called a couple times and texted me several times asking if I was okay. I responded that I was fine. Yet, for some reason, I am woken up several hours later by police banging on my door. They claimed I had no option but to go with them to the hospital in handcuffs, or in an ambulance. To this day, I still don't know what my rights were/are, but I was basically kidnapped by the government at my therapist's request, and taken to a place that was about as close to being a prison as you can get, without literally being a prison. You have no freedom. You don't have any of your belongings. You cannot communicate with the outside world. And I was with other "inmates" who were in much more unfortunate situations than myself, having conversations with invisible people, or outright unable to take care of themselves or carry on a conversation.
This is my country's idea of "help" for people like me (as well as the very sick people who were in there with me). I am someone who would just like to feel better about waking up tomorrow, build overall confidence in myself, find a couple genuine things to hope for in my future, and get a job that isn't a dead-end hell-hole so I can financially support myself—possibly even support another person if I can grow into someone who can take on that level of responsibility.
I did not need to be in that hospital. I felt like my therapist betrayed my trust, not just with him but the entire therapy enterprise. The whole psych ward experience traumatized me. As a result, I regressed emotionally and I'm now in my mid-twenties sleeping with a stuffed animal again. Being in that hospital would never have done anything that would change my life, at least not in the ways my life needs to change for it to become worth living. Like I said, what I really need is a job that doesn't make me hate being alive. If financially supporting myself just ironically makes me suicidal, I will continue living at home. If I can no longer live at home because my parents pass away, I will then have to kill myself.
In the meantime, I eventually found a little bit of solace in religion, but believe me, I'm far from "wow thanks I'm cured." I also got more out of reading the works of Carl Jung and some philosophy, mostly Kierkegaard and a little bit of stoicism (I have a bone to pick with the latter, but that'd be off-topic). Perhaps religion, psychology, or philosophy are resources you can explore for yourself.
