You can, despite all of the craziness, recover from your addictions, learn to calmly interact with your reality, make good choices, become content, and develop better coping skills. The Waiting Room (A Chat Area) In my actual office, located in the old stone barn, the waiting room is also used for group therapy. It's a comfortable place to hang out and talk. So, on my website, the Waiting Room is a free chat area. That door is never locked, so you can arrange to meet a few friends here to discuss recovery issues, or whatever else is on your mind. Just wander in to see who else is hanging out. I might even drop in from time to time. Being vulnerable is an important part of recovery. Keeping each other's confidences here is a part of what makes and keeps Healthy Responses in a Dysfunctional Society a safe place to share. Feedback involves validating each other's feelings and/or experiences, and sharing what you've learned for yourself that may be helpful for others here. Gentle helpful confrontation about issues or behavior may be appropriate, but attacks on each other are not ever acceptable. Brutal honesty is not therapeutic; tact is a useful skill to develop. Ideally, this chat may facilitate development of awareness, insight, growth and change. If you are currently experiencing an extreme crisis, and are likely to harm yourself or others, you need to immediately contact a crisis center or emergency room. On-line interaction is not sufficient by itself to deal with that kind of an acute crisis. You are certainly welcome to come back here again, once you are somewhat stabilized. Just click on the button below, and you will be able to sign yourself into the Waiting Room Chat (a new browser window will open, and you will be connected to our secure server).