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Wellness Wednesday for November 23, 2022

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:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.