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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I'm deeply jealous that antidepressants actually worked for you, and the very first one you've tried!
For someone who prescribes or oversees the use of plenty, I've had shit luck with them. Fluoxetine, buproprion and vortioexetine for about 5 years in the past 10 with no noticeable (positive) effect.
I did, however, start mirtazapine last week. I can attest to the sedating effect, which paradoxically is the maximum at the lowest dose. Let's see if that makes a difference, but I did feel much better when I fled Scotland after 5 months to spend a couple weeks at home. I've been back to work for a week or two, and things have been mildly looking up.
(What I'd give to retire by 33. Ain't happening with UK doctor wages I'll tell Ya)
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