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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One thing that can be helpful in situations like these is something which programmers call "rubber duck debugging". The method is to put a rubber duck (real or figurative) on your desk and then explain your problem to the duck. Quite often, the solution to your problem becomes obvious.
I think you've completed the first step by writing down your problem here.
Now, what does the duck say back?
What would you say if someone else told you this exact story?
I'd suggest they go find a doctor or a bored med student, but it's hard getting an audience with those guys, so we're forced to solve weird medical puzzles ourselves.
Mf just ignoring me right here, with all the solicited and unsolicited medical advice I dish out for free.
That's it, I'm going to get Zorba to implement micropayments and a blockchain so I can bill you all.
(But as I said above, I'm not touching this one, psychiatry is built on One Weird Trick like talking to people and making them feel better, resetting their brains with electrical currents, supplementing neurotransmitters when we know there isn't actually a deficiency, fucking ketamine yada yada. But those are Weird Tricks that scale, and I'm betting this doesn't)
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