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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How difficult is it to get a tourist visa to America, anyway? I thought one of the criteria was having attachments in your country of residence that would make it difficult to run off and start living in America. Well, just having a job in your home country isn't that, exactly, but having a job as a doctor is. So if you can't get a visa, who the hell can?
God knows. The thing is, I'm not a permanent resident in the UK. I have a skilled workers visa, which is great, but beyond that, I have no permanent ties here. I presume that plays into their calculation of flight risk, though I don't know if they properly consider the fact that I'm a doctor on the middle of training who doesn't stand to gain much from cutting and running.
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