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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Today in how my personal and familial slide into kind of being poor, which is abject poverty by the standards of this forum, makes me suicidal. My elderly beloved formerly expensive car, one of the last vestiges of the previous life, needs extensive costly bodyworks, with the necessity likely facilitated by my neglect. In some ways I feel my failures towards her (I'm using the ship custom here) more sharply than towards people.
Hey man, one side of my family came from poverty and the other came from wealth. I’ve been on both sides of the fence and know what that’s like and let me tell you, growing up at a period in my life having anything I desired and wanting for nothing still didn’t leave me happy. And that was when I learned what true happiness really is. Catholicism and religion is a huge source of that to me every day that I wake up. It’s the most durable concept that fills the void. It isn’t money.
You’re not alone and by yourself. Thinking and reflecting about your failures is one of the things that makes you a good person because you’re reflective and thoughtful; but it’ll completely eat you alive if you let it. If you ever want to talk, send me a message.
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