Americans W/Brains Against Offended People

Wrap your brains around this one!  These people need to get real jobs!

Language Matters—The ADS Center Announces Its Name Change

Effective immediately, SAMHSA's Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma has been re-named to SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and, Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health. The Center will still go by the acronym, the ADS Center.

Why change the name? For many years, the ADS Center has promoted the use of language that lets people with mental illnesses be known for their skills, talents, and abilities, not for their diagnosis or "label." We've worked to change the way that media portrays people with mental illnesses, how providers refer to people with mental illnesses, and how individuals talk to and about people with mental illnesses.

Recently, we took a look at our own language use. We asked, "Does using the word 'stigma' lead to stigma?" and questioned whether words like "anti-stigma" have the potential to build a bias, where one did not exist. The ADS Center name change is a result of close inspection and reflection with a spectrum of stakeholders on these tough questions.

The ADS Center's new name reflects a new approach: to promote a strengths-based vision, recognizing the importance of a caring, welcoming, and supportive community in helping to promote recovery and wellness for people with mental health problems. Reducing "stigma" will continue to be part of the ADS Center's work but it is no longer enough. We must expand what we do to better serve individuals with mental illnesses and their families.

The work of the ADS Center is to foster dialogue and facilitate activities to promote full community participation by people with mental health problems. As such, we welcome comments from you on our name change. 

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Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide...

Let's see now...

No Jesus

No Christmas

No television

No cheerleaders

No nude women

No car races

No football

No soccer

No golf

No tailgate parties

No K-Mart... Allah, Forbid... No Wal-Mart!

No pork BBQ

No hot dogs

No burgers

No chocolate chip cookies

No lobster

No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks

No nachos

No beer nuts

No beer

Rags for clothes and towels for hats.

Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he's sick and there are no doctors.

More than one wife.

You can't shave.

Your wives can't shave.

You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.

The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times.

Your bride is picked by someone else.

She smells just like your donkey.

But your donkey has a better disposition.

Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!

I mean, really... is there really a mystery here?

I add this only cuz I dont believe the south is bashed quite enough...

Chili Judges

 

Nothing is moving north or south on the highway.

 

A driver rolls down his window and asks, 'What happened? What's the hold

up here?' 

 

A trooper responded that terrorists have kidnapped Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Barack Obama.  They are asking for a $10 million ransom.

Otherwise, they are going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire.  We are going from car to car, taking up a Collection'.

 

The driver asks, 'On average how much is everyone giving?'

 

'The trooper replied, ' Oh, about a gallon or two each.'

All I have to say is, some Christians take life waaaaay too seriously.

I am from a small, rural town and we had "wacky week" (but we called it "Spirit Week", 10, no, not believing that? ok 30 some years ago.   Every year at least 2 if not more of the guys would dress up like either old woman or slutty woman.  Great fun.

But no more for a school in Wisconsin, "The controversy over costumes in Reedsburg began after a dress-up day meant to boost classroom energy at the end of winter. But after the response the school got last Friday, the students will have one less theme to choose from, WISC-TV reported.

Looking at pictures of the week, many might think it was Halloween in Reedsburg. Photos show a school filled with poodle-skirted girls and hippie-dressed boys, but the costumes aren't in honor of the haunted holiday.

"Wacky Week has been a tradition for a number of years," said Tammy Hayes, principal of Pineview Elementary School.

This year Wacky Week, where students choose themes for dress-up days, disturbed the peace at Pineview Elementary when its "Senior Citizen and Opposite Gender" day was discovered by a Milwaukee radio group.

"We didn't think about it like that, the kids didn't think about it like that. And therefore, that's why we went with it," said Shari Miller, Student Senate advisor at the school. "We never thought that anything would come about like this."

An area resident contacted Voice of Christian Youth America Radio, who opened the phone lines on their show Friday morning. They said that they believed the day promoted alternative lifestyles..."

http://www.handelonthelaw.com/news_details.aspx?News=5354

I guess the religious group believes that every guy who as a goof dresses like a woman in on the path to homosexuality and pedophilia.

We all know how hard it is to overcome the call of the satin undies for you men....

Where I work it is company policy that there is no such thing as “Stupid Employees” err “Associates.”  The problems associated with such people are “Training Issues.” It is a failure on the behalf of their supervisors to train them properly.

You and I know that some people cannot be trained. You can teach them a simple task and they will forget the training in 10 minutes or less after a Supervisor walks away. You can train them repeatedly every day for months and they still won’t get it… Yet is a failure on the behalf of a Supervisor to train them…NOT a failure of the Associate to learn…so the associate stays…

Will someone PLEASE get yet another supervisor to try to train Obama on how to use a damn TELEPHONE again...?

I'm about to PUKE!  Literally, folks!  I've had so much tolerance and "Go Green" shoved down my throat this week that I am literally about  to aspirate from vomiting the stuff up!  I CAN'T take anymore.  Let me tell you about my week.....

I am a mental health counselor, licensed, with multiple degrees.  I went to school for a long time to do what I do which is basically work with 'the mentally impaired."  Okay, I've been to so many hours of cultural competency training that I impress even the most  discerning mental health supervisors.  That's always the question that I have to answer in job interviews that gets me the job!  The heads start nodding and then comes the smile...yep,  you got the job girl.  Now let me state that I do believe that those in my profession need to have a degree of cultural competency.  I need to understand the cultural behaviors which could lead me to attribute the behavior to a disorder rather than cultural  upbringing.  Okay, so cultural 'competence' can be a good thing! 

We have pages and pages of this nifty, redundant, paper work that we have to fill out with all the jots and tittles completed in order to avoid bad marks from our continuous audits.  I understand this.  We could have to pay money back to the reimbursing bodies and that would not be a good thing.  So I'm a good little team player and make significant efforts to make sure to dot my "I's" and cross my 'T's."  Not a problem, annoying perhaps but, not a problem.  So this week, we're sitting through the usual discussion of this weeks definition of the correct completion of agency forms, namely what is commonly referred to as a treatment plan and has been referred to as a treatment plan for the past 12 years that I have been in the field.    When this sheeple pipes up and says "I went to a training last week and they said we're not supposed to call it a 'treatment plan' anymore.  The new term is.....are you ready for this????  The 'treatment plan' is now going to be re-named The WELLNESS PLAN!  You see by our re-naming our form the Schizophrenics are going to suddenly stop hearing voices, the Bi polars will begin to take their meds and the Disassociatves will shake hands with all their other personalities and suddenly merge into one functioning, sane, human being!  Everyone in the room suddenly jumped on the new concept of a "Wellness Plan" like ducks on a June Bug!  They loved it!  It's going to empower our clients, oops, consumers....oops we're not calling them that anymore this week we are now calling them partners!  I watched the miracle unfold right before my very eyes and I'm sad to say that out of perhaps 25 people in the room I seemed to be the only one who wondered are these the same 'partners' that you said won't come in to sign their "wellness plans" so we can get paid?????  All this in a span of 10 minutes!!!  You know what?  This isn't going to make one, single,  bit of difference to the people we serve!  They don't care what we call them or their paper work!  They just want their drugs and ",by the way I can't pay my gas bill this month. can your agency pay my gas bill."  But it sure made the sheeple feel good!  You know what?  I can sit around and call a pile of bull shit anything I want to call it; a rose, a scented landmark, fragrant fertilizer...what ever....it's still gonna stink!  I shake my head, roll my eyes, mutter under my breath, and return to my office knowing that I'm the most un compassionate employee on my agencies entire payroll.

Accepting this fact about myself I sit down at my computer and pull up my email!  There it is....."GO GREEN."  Not just one but in triplicate!  There are 3 emails from three different people informing me that we have now spent who knows how much money, to buy new recycling bins!  One for plastic and one for aluminum cans  They are even color coded!  How nice!  So I head on down and throw my trusty Pepsi can in the pretty blue one.  I get back to my desk and now there are three more emails telling me that I can now put only plastic bottles that have the number one inside the little recycling symbol in the green barrel.  I guess I just need to pollute the planet with the rest of the plastic bottles.  Did I mention the email trying to sell me agency coffee cups so that I wouldn't use styrofoam???  It's a good thing my door was shut!  I'd decided right there and then that I would not put another thing into their little barrels!  But boy the recycle bin on my computer is sure getting full.

So after I do some deep breathing exercises to get my blood pressure back down since I'm in Global Warming stage at this point,  My boss drops by!  He tells me that in our recent audit, the powers that be said that on the question that asks our consumers, oops, partners, if they have anything that they do regarding their culture can no longer say "No" or "None."  You see our partners are just to stupid to know if they engage in any cultural activities or not and it's now my job to question them till the fragrant land marks no longer stink until they come up with something.  You see we no longer honor your culture, now we demand that you have one, whether you think you do our not!  I actually wrote "red neck" on one this week.  We'll see how the auditors like that one! 

And now for the cherry on top of the delicious, politically correct, week of mine!  My co-worker researched and printed out a copy of Obama's Health Care Plan and gave it to me as a gift!  Hard Copy!  I couldn't get it in the recycle bin!  Oh well, we recycle our shreded paper too!  Can someone please pass me a recycled, biodegradable, environmentally friendly barf bag?

Gut Wrenching

Picture of a horrible highway accident in Germany . The picture may be Kind of hard to take for some of you

If you look closely you can see what appear to be some survivors of the accident still in the wreckage. Although the picture is quite graphic, it makes you realize how quickly our loved ones can be taken from us.

My friend stayed on the scene to help and even though he performed mouth to mouth on quite a few of them, none apparently survived.