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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New Year's resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
Nothing to report on the fitness front. I am particularly annoyed that when I do have the occasional twinge to pay it a visit (on the way back from work), it's overrun with women hogging the leg press machine. Well, at least it's a nice view. I just don't like sitting around waiting for a machine.
Doing aight in other ways. We have a pharmacist who loves his job. Perhaps too much. No, cyclizine is not particularly a drug of abuse, and I didn't need him breathing down my neck about it. Aggressively gay, in an anal way. Owns a Chihuahua too. But he's a pretty nice guy, barring possible OCD, and I have other hills to die on. If you thought I was dedicated to my job...
I've also realized that my colleagues are on to the fact that I seem to own only three shirts. Which isn't correct, I do own at least 5, but I used that as impetus to go raiding Vinted and I'm in the process of discovering my Inner Indian and the joys of getting nice clothing at reasonable prices. I seem to have spent all of £90 on half a dozen items in a week, which is practically profligate spending on clothing by my usual standards.
I suppose some might be surprised to learn that clothing prices are much the same in the India and the UK, in absolute terms. In relative ones? Might be cheaper to get new shirts and throw them away rather than launder them.
I've been getting out and about. Taking pictures. Being a pub psychiatrist and giving free advice, with people getting what they paid for. Doing a reasonably good job at actual work - where they don't pay me either. Today, I happened to run into a lovely old lady I'd screened for cognitive impairment and taken a history off while her husband and his brother wheeled her out. Did my usual song and dance and advised her to enjoy the fresh air. As I turned the corridor, I heard her say "isn't he such a great doctor" and that made me ache. Well, I try.
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