Hi Don,

Thank you for your comment. I worked for a company that provides peer support from a corporate model. When I took the job I wasn’t given the full picture. But there is a lot of distortion that gets promoted by business when funds are at stake.

It’s good the therapist cried, maybe he was reflective enough to learn from your lesson. Some therapists need to be taught to take criticism and reflect. To many don’t do that and blame the teacher and the “illness.”

Good of you to volunteer your services back then. Sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes you pay for years of abuse, and sometimes insurance companies pay for abuse. Sometimes you get what you need in the strangest circumstances. I try to stay strange.

I am working on praying for what I need and being grateful, instead of simply wanting what I can’t have. Wants can get you in trouble.

Excited for the arrival of your book, should be any day now. Thanks for all that you do.

There is a corporation called American Addiction Centers. It boasts not only its excellent care (a guarantee that after a 90 day residence, if there is a relapse, the client can return for free), but also going public, selling stock in the corporation on Wall Street.

Here’s an experience as an out patient with a therapist at a community outreach center. This is a man who I partnered with at a free introductory re-evaluation co-counseling session. I’s seen him around in the community before. As my therapist, during the second session, he told me he only works with people’s pain–the negative experiences. he did not want to discuss or hear about anything good happening for me. Next session I told him I was quitting the therapy because of this. He began sobbing and I held him.