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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Are you mixing up oral and genital herpes? Oral herpes infects something like 2/3rds of adults; genital herpes infects more like 1/6th of adults ... I actually didn't know it was so high before I looked it up for this reply; I guess "really common" is a matter of definitions? They're both "mostly benign" in the sense that it's very rare to get lethal complications of them, but they're both only partially treatable and not at all curable. Getting an oral-herpes cold sore every year or so is at least annoying, and having infectious lesions break out on your genitals four or five times a year for the rest of your life sounds like it would be pretty awful.
For HSV-2 in the U.S., the rate varies a lot by race, from 3.8% for Asian to 34.6% (!) for black.
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