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'll cop to the second part, but disagree that it's not useful. Not worrying about trivial crap that's pumped in the media as the literal apocalypse is in fact extremely useful -- particularly so in OPs case, he seems to worry too much and based on his posting here it's a much bigger negative for his QOL than any amount of smoke.
I'm from Western Canada and there's often quite a lot of smoke in the air even when there aren't wildfires -- and we have seasons as bad as what's happening out east (and last year in California) every 4-5 years. It's been like this forever -- just with somewhat lower frequency back when the fire services were better resourced and locals weren't
kicked off their placesevacuated at the drop of a hat, which cut down on the secondary fires (and structure losses) due to flying embers and such.If you were really trying to be useful to the OP, you wouldn't put it to him as "toughen the fuck up." If you want to deliver some tough love, be less antagonistic and more sincerely helpful about it.
I've been gradually escalating the toughness of my love, as you will see if you are following his "the only women in my league are 400lb drug addicts, because I am 5'6" and autistic" threads -- if this is a little too tough for this venue that's fine and I will stop, but believe me when I say that more of this kind of thinking would be more helpful to this guy than any amount of sympathetic noises.
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