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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I wholeheartedly appreciate you taking the time to write such a conscientious response with your experience and the statistics you've included! I don't have much to add, but one thing I will tell you is that the suspicion of narcissism has been present for a while. It was certainly not triggered by this alone, though this sure as hell adds insult to the injury. Without getting too personal, I began picking the suspicion up after spending time reading literature, observing healthy family dynamics in movies, having dinner at my pals' houses, etc. and recognizing that something was off about my family. Obviously I ought not to take them as the gospel, but have researched what medical professionals had to say as NPD and have delineated the concrete exchanges I've had with my father to Claude. I provided some examples of the behaviors exhibited by my father a few Wellness Wednesday threads ago, which I've linked in my response to another person replying to my post.
You're welcome! Don't worry, your dad could well be a narcissist, and if he's an asshat, you have the right not to contact him regardless of a formal or informal diagnosis.
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