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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If you are not inherently wired for friendship/romance, then you haven't "missed" or "lost" anything. As a person in a vaguely similar position, I regret wasting effort on trying to make friends (1 2 3). I should have never bothered, but I keep failing to learn my lesson. (Is this an appropriate place to use the "⁎taps the sign⁎" meme? I don't really like it, but maybe that's because I don't properly understand it.)
There are a hundred different solo hobbies from which a person can derive enjoyment. (Even for a person suffering from depression severe enough to prevent him from performing those hobbies, passive pseudo-hobbies may be worth living for.)
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