Midnight at the Insane Asylum, Part the Second

One of many problems I have w/ the business of mental health or lack thereof is the constant use of euphemism. For instance, our patients are officially referred to as "consumers" and, less often, "clients." Client? Isn't that like a customer? I think of a client as someone who can leave the premises and go to another establishment. You don't get court commitments to keep a client. This is just one of many and I often wonder how anyone who's read or is familiar w/ 1984 and Orwell could make such cynical usage a part of their professional milieu. It's PC gone to extremes. It's one thing not to hurt someone's feelings or be crass. It's quite another to lie to them. There's even a new name for it at the asylum. It's "People First." Rather than do something, we're going to concentrate on spiffing up the official releases. That probably took an untold number of committees of bureaucrats who haven't had contact w/ a patient in years. You people out there just nevermind and keep paying your taxes.