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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Don't wanna wait for friday fun thread and laughing is part of wellness so here's my conversation starter:
What are your favorite comedy films in the post Tropic Thunder era where most things became overly boring and safe? Did anything break away from the mean and turn out surprisingly hilarious? Whether due to sharp satire or elseways.
Observe and Report from 2009 got mixed reviews, was not a box office smash or anything, but the climax of the final chase scene is one of the only times I've ever been in a movie theater where everyone organically stood up and cheered and yelled. The entire movie is "holy shit that's fucked up." One of the last big mean/shock humor movies from the "Vulgar Age," and somehow it really worked. At least when I was 19.
The only movie I've ever seen with a date-rape sight gag. And it works. And the movie got away with it.
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