The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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What recreational drugs do you use for recreation/relaxation/health?
I drink alcohol frequently but don't necessarily think it improves my health. It can be fun though.
I drink caffeine daily, and eat cannabis gummies every now and then. I have to do it at home with minimal distractions though, or the anxiety gets me. Pot helps a lot with muscular awareness I've found.
I've had a lot of profound experiences with psychedelics but have had a lot of trouble finding them in the last few years. I've recently been experiminting with DXM (tablets - I don't recommend chugging syrup when you can buy it on Amazon) and it has been nice and euphoric. Less profound than LSD or shrooms but still fun.
Caffeine - I drink tea to wake up. Abhor the taste of coffee even though I'm aware that it does a better job.
Nicotine - I'm addicted. I used to smoke a pack or two a day. Switched to vaping and never looked back. I use a fairly (very) strong 50mg/ml vape juice. I take hits of it every 10-15 minutes. I'm aware that is far too much and plan to wean it down to maybe once every two hours. I have no plans of ever getting entirely off nicotine, it helps me function too well; Could be totally placebo.
Alcohol - Fuck no. I became a compulsive drinker in college (5-6 shots every day, much much more on the weekends). I didn't have a drop of booze in the last 6 or so months and I plan to maintain that for the rest of my life. I don't feel the need to consume alcohol and I suppose things are better off staying that way. The productivity hit of even a mild buzz is far too consequential imo, ballmers peak be damned.
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