Just wanted to add the information on the california 5150 holds that I was familiar with when I lived in California.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/di...00§ion=wic
Interesting because when I was very sick with anorexia at the time my mother died of cancer....my anorexia was caused by the stress & trauma I went through with my mother & the home care person who abused her & caused so much trauma to me. My GP had put me in the hospital because I was very sick & he was trying to figure out why I wasn't able to eat. The hospital didn't have a psych ward, but they had a on call pdoc & psychologist that my GP had called in to work with me. My blood work had come back very anemic & my GP said that I either needed a feeding tube or a picc line or a central line. I initially went with the picc line but it got infected & they had to stop it. My mother had died the night I went back into the hospital & the funeral was delayed because of rain. It was a complicated situation & I was only allowing close friends & family to know where & when the funeral was to be held to keep the abusive people away (my mother's bf & the home care person who was his neighbor). Because they had to take out the picc line, the pdoc told me that I was too sick to leave the hospital & if I left I would die within a few days, so if I tried to leave he was going to place a 5150 on me so I couldn't leave the hospital (danger to myself). Found this information out through the nursing staff. I talked to my GP & explained how important it was for me to be at my mother's funeral. He said he couldn't release me because of the report the pdoc had left in my file, but he would look the other way without saying anything if I left AMA so the pdoc wouldn't have a chance to write up the 5150 on me which would then give them the authorization to have the police go out & pick me up if I did leave.....but they couldn't write up the 5150 if I had already left AMA.
All this stupid drama around my mother's death & her funeral & she was just a nobody & the only thing she had that the home care person wanted was her house that she owned. One thing my mother left me other than the house was the PTSD that came from all the trauma I went through with her.....that still haunts me 7 years later. At least I didn't have the police coming to my home or to the funeral to pick me up & take me back to the hospital......thankful I had a considerate GP who really did care.