A Million Little Pieces~OR#5

This story is getting a little boring due to its' relentless theme of complaining. A typical conversation-starter between patients at the center is complaining about how horrible they feel, for instance,"I am dealing with feelings of shame, James. That's why I was in here all day yesterday. It was shame..."(243). In a sick way, this is how most of the patients relate to each other and make friends. They compare and contrast who has had the hardest life and ponder on that thought. I sometimes wonder if this does more harm than good; expressing and getting the occasional "tip" from how to deal and be a thug on the streets. For those who sincerely want to get better, hearing these horror stories aren't very motivating...
And for the reader, this type of gibberish of going on and on is frustrating. I know it makes perfect sense that all of the addicts hooked up in a recovery center would vent, but i mean, come on already, this is getting annoying....(no pun intended)
The characters all reflect about why they are in the recovery center, how they got there, and ironically, don't talk about getting better or how to achieve their goals once they are out. I believe that a prominent reason why 85% of the addicts relapse when they come out of the recovery center is due to the roller-coaster environment of high ups and low downs. I'm not a psychologist or a physician so I can't say what's good/bad for these people, but it would be fair to say that it would be responsible for the professionals to try to filter out as much of the negative atmosphere of complaining as possible.
Rebuilding a person's life would be much easier, at least for me, if there weren't negative people around me complaining all of the time!