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).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
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Working out until exhausted.
Getting laid.
Going on a hike or chilling by the water.
Venting to friends and family.
Martial arts sparring.
Alcohol, sometimes. But really not a good road to go down.
Key is to put your mind and body in a different context so that you see the thing that angers you from a different perspective and realize that there's more to life than that.
t. coping with seething about work for months now
No kidding, even aside from health issues. Some people get much more angry when drunk. The chance of curing a minor anger problem that's at the "asking for advice on the internet" stage isn't worth the chance of turning it into a major anger problem that might reach the "asking for advice from the defense attorney" stage.
I like that you put "working out until exhausted" at the top. Even just "working out until calm" is good. Either way you still only have a chance of curing the problem long-term, but now the worst case scenario is that whenever you get a needlessly elevated heart rate you make it needful and improve your health.
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