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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I'm pretty sure I used to also behave this way before I had kids, it's just more obvious, because I can't just sit alone in a bookshop or park or something while being mildly depressed, I have to grudgingly get up and make someone else food. Which is, overall, not worse, possibly better, it just feels a bit worse.
Don't let the prospect of a chatterbox necessarily discourage you! There are options, I'm just not personally very good at finding and taking advantage of them. I hear kids used to find other kids in the neighborhood to play with, and then they would just go off and do that for hours a day. One of my co-workers is sending her school aged kids to three weeks of Parks & Rec discount camps, and maybe that will be me next year. Also, lots of kids are way calmer. I just seem to hang in the ADHD and autism spectrum part of society for some reason. My father built himself a detached study to smoke cigars and forbid his children from entering.
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