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Wellness Wednesday for July 12, 2023

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:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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've dealt with similar issues by simply losing respect for the people involved. Children, the mentally disabled, the senile, etc. don't really have opinions that matter much. It is a fact of life that some people are stupid (and/or evil) and their opinions should be disregarded.

A good way to deal with most stuff is just to ask her to not talk politics etc. If you have a ton of social wherewithal, the only alternative I can think of is to play "yes and", subtly exposing her true beliefs to others by encouraging her to express them.