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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Content warning: obnoxious bragging.
Got approached again by a random attractive woman while in public. More subtle than some in the past that have simply introduced themselves to me or straight-up given me a phone number, but still obvious. A real boost to the ol' mental health.
However, as I'm married and would like to remain so, this attention is ultimately pointless. I've tried to think of ways to take advantage of my appearance (I think I'm unremarkable looking, but years of evidence at this point is starting to indicate otherwise) without coming up with anything useful. Acting like a semi-normal human instead of a raging autist is the extent of my acting skills, so that's a dead end. I definitely do not have the personality/charisma for frequent social gatherings and gladhanding, which means politics is out. I guess I could open my own law firm and go the billboard advertising route, but that seems dreadful for a variety of reasons.
Go into sales?
Probably a non-starter for the same reason as politics, although I guess my job does involve plenty of sales.
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