Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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I hope your November is off to a great start.
It feels like the opposite what I should be posting here but I feel like I need to at least say it: I have continued with my downward spiral for the x^th^ month in a row. My drinking has maintained or increased, I drank well over 2 liters of liquor last week. I have continued to self-isolate from the people that I care about for a variety of reasons. I have all but completely stopped cooking and instead end up eating whatever fucking slop is available to me since I have so little free time. Half of my kitchen is broken anyways so cooking/meal prepping is dramatically harder anyways. One of my dogs is really sick and has been a struggle to properly care for. I am slowly falling deeper into debt in a way that is feeling suffocating with no real way out at the moment. Work is feeling increasingly perilous recently which is adding to the stress. The only thing that brings me any joy is walking my dogs, playing Hades 2, and numbing myself with weed/alcohol. I'm not tired per se since I sleep well and regularly exercise but I have a world weariness that is seemingly impossible to shake. I'm hanging in there but just being perfectly honest: shit sucks.