A stay in the mental hospital. Name taken from the grippy socks given to (mostly involuntary) patients. Patients are not allowed
shoes with laces due to suicide risk so grippy socks
like those used at trampoline parks are issued to patients for footwear.
See: "psych ward socks"
Source: Was in mental hospital in
2019 and know other patients from other institutions
Phrase originally used within mental hospital circles and later spread on TikTok and other social media.