Community
Recovery is lonely in a specific way: the people around you often cannot follow you into it. These rooms exist so you can talk to people who can — either under a name you choose, or under nothing at all.
Open Table · public
Conversations anyone can read, posted under a name you pick. Milestones, setbacks, what worked, what didn't. Good for the day you want to be seen — or to be useful to someone earlier on than you.
You choose the name. It does not have to be your real one, and most people's isn't.
Quiet Room · anonymous
For the things you cannot put your name to yet. Relapse, debt, the thought you haven't said out loud. No name, no profile, no history — nothing that follows you back out of the room.
Nothing is attached to you. Posts here are not linked to your account, your order, or your email.
Short, and enforced. A room only stays safe if it is actually kept that way.
No amounts staked, won or lost, and no talk of a specific bet, odds, site or app. For a lot of people that reads as an invitation, however it was meant.
Share what happened to you. Don't prescribe for anyone else, and never tell someone to come off medication or leave treatment.
Nobody is shamed for going back. The rooms are built on the assumption that most recoveries are not a straight line.
No products, no programmes, no referral links — mine included. If a post is selling you something, report it.
This is not a crisis service
Nobody here is on duty, and a reply might take hours. If today is dangerous, please use a line that is staffed right now.
National Gambling Helpline — 0808 8020 133. Free, 24 hours.
Samaritans — 116 123. Free, 24 hours, any reason at all.