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've been in a similar state, but eventually it passed, as this kind of affect often does. This is not a dismissal, but a suggestion that patience with both yourself and other people often is the only hack you need.
Also as usual when I read people describing a state of misery, I wonder if any aspect is being deliberately or inadvertently left out---a failed project, an unrequited affection, something closer to home the reflection of which is too raw yet to look at. I've read many responses to you and the least charitable are also the ones that are possibly most taking you at face value. I may be second-guessing you, and I don't expect you to write out your inner diary here, but consider if there isn't some other issue creating this malaise.
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