Why Do Mental Hospitals Call Themselves Behavioral Facilities?

by Vancouver Coastal Health

Question by Halle: Why do mental hospitals call themselves behavioral facilities?
Places like Rivendell, Bridgeway, and Pinnacle Pointe Hospital are all psychiatric hospitals. Why do they tell the patients they’re in a “behavioral health facility”? Do they really think that the patients are that stupid? Why do those sick and demented places not show themselves for what they really are?

Best answer:

Answer by MacG
Loonie Bin, Nut Factory, and Insane Asylum don’t quite have that charming ring they’re looking for.

Answer by Ruby
To make them sound better

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