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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In the tedious but ongoing marathon that is the road to curing my dysthymia, I’m coming to the end of my menstrual cycle, which will make it fourth months in a row. I’m already in record territory when the third one happened, but this fourth one is, quite frankly, amazing. The status quo has been one-to-two cycles a year ever since I began puberty and I’d like to think I’m prepared for an infertility diagnosis in the future, but I’m a little more optimistic I’ll dodge that RNG bullet with these developments, and if I don’t have to hear such dismal news from a doctor somewhere down the line, I’ll take those silver linings.
In relation to my dysthymia, I can only assume a correlation between my treatment and one of the side effects which is supposed to be decreased stress. It feels like a two-sided blade; if decreasing my stress is a side effect of curing my mood disorder and also happens returns a natural menstrual cycle, the gulf of change implies an equally deep breadth of stress. It’s been a-given (for everyone else, lol) that stress will shorten or interrupt cycles; what are the implications if mine have been virtually eliminated most of my life? Hilariously stressful, that’s what they are. The universe has a wonderful sense of humor, but sometimes it’s confusing figuring out what the joke is. Alexa, play “Charlie’s Inferno” on repeat.
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