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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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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Thanks for this! I have been struggling with porn use for about 6 years (when I decided I wanted to quit), and nothing seems to have worked. The times I've been clean for longest (couple weeks at a time) were when I took drastic steps to reduce physical proximity to stimulus: banning websites on my phone/computer, reducing screen time drastically, no social media so I wouldn't see thots in my real life post slutty pictures.
Other stuff like having a girlfriend, or even becoming Catholic didn't really help kick the habit. It's heartening to see that the road to porn-free life goes through the physical realm, rather than the vague spiritual realm where a lot of my peers seems to think it resides.
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