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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Never waste a good crisis.
Dislocated my shoulder my last week. 2nd time and non-traumatic. Ortho says I should get surgery while it is still minor. All things said and done, it is not that bad. Minimally invasive and I will be back to 100% within a couple of months.
It's got me motivated to control the things I can control. Been cooking daily so calorie counts stay low. Started cycling now that the weather is nice. Neither tasks take high motivation. Hoping I can keep it up in the medium term.
Dude, avoid surgery for that sort of injury at all costs. They are often not better than placebo, and orthos and PTs have huge incentives to push them. Seriously, surgery is probably not worth it 95% of the time from my research.
Yeah. It’s best to avoid surgery when it’s possible to do so. I’ve only had one surgery in my entire life, but a lot of the time people say after you get one, you’re never the same way again; even after the recovery.
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