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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There’s an industrial AC unit outside an acquaintance’s apartment. I can barely hear it but it absolutely enraged him, to the point of multi-year legal battles. Notably the original installation was dubiously legal.
I think ‘noise + injustice’ has something to do with it. Personally I can’t stand hearing political discussion I don’t agree with - I literally can’t concentrate until it goes away, even if it’s just on the radio. Maybe not the same thing. Notably text is basically okay.
I don’t think it’s just related to noise. My little brother was very hyper and could only pass the time on long journeys by teasing me. I didn’t like being touched in general but I HATED being touched by my brother. So of course he would lean on me in the back of the car, or put his hand just a bit too far over the handrest, or whatever. It got to the point where I went berserk when he so much as twitched.
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