I don't really pay attention to who else is waiting, because to me it doesn't matter to my life, or my therapy, or whatever. I guess I don't care too much about if I know someone who happens to see the same therapist either for some reason. I think I am the exception to the norm on this matter though. I don't talk about therapy because of privacy concerns to anyone other than here and my trusted circle of friends, which I guess is similar.

I've been with my friend once who did go to the community mental health service where I live, and it was a complete madhouse; entirely unlike the calm atmosphere of my therapist. I might want to hide myself there and make myself inconspicuous just so I wouldn't get pestered! I don't know why that place is so different, but I can only guess that the patients aren't very functional because they probably aren't being appropriately treated by our substandard government community mental health dumping grounds.