5150
California commitment code
A California legal code section authorizing involuntary psychiatric hold for up to 72 hours when someone poses a danger to themselves or others.
The number has become informal shorthand for being crazy or mentally unstable: He went totally 5150 on me.
Van Halen's 1986 album helped spread the term beyond California.
Mandated psychiatric institutionalization
- 72-hour holdTemporary involuntary mental health detention
- mental health crisisSevere psychological distress episode
- danger to selfRisk of self-inflicted harm
- danger to othersPotential harm to people
psych evaluation · patient rights · conservatorship · due process · stabilization · assessment
- albumUnified collection of recordings
- hard rockLoud guitar-driven genre
- heavy metalAggressive amplified rock genre
- 1986Four-digit date, eighties
Eddie Van Halen · Sammy Hagar · guitar · Warner Bros · platinum record · rock anthem · pop culture · tattoo
involuntary commitment
Mandated psychiatric institutionalization
- 72-hour holdTemporary involuntary mental health detention
- mental health crisisSevere psychological distress episode
- danger to selfRisk of self-inflicted harm
danger to others · psych evaluation · patient rights · conservatorship · due process · stabilization · assessment
Van Halen
- albumUnified collection of recordings
- hard rockLoud guitar-driven genre
- heavy metalAggressive amplified rock genre
Eddie Van Halen · 1986 · Sammy Hagar · guitar · Warner Bros · platinum record · rock anthem · pop culture · tattoo
- Mainframesmainframe, COBOL, batch processing, Big Blue, IBM
5150sane
Mentally healthy, clearheaded
of sound mind · lucid · rational · stable · balanced
5150free
Without payment or restriction
released · at liberty · discharged · unrestricted · free to go