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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The Good: I've been eating a lot healthier recently. For the most part all of it is home-cooked meals with real ingredients. I've also gotten back into climbing as an exercise. It was something that I used to do all the time but covid killed the habit and my depression made me stay away for years. My sleep schedule is fantastic with me getting ample sleep each night and waking up feeling rested. And for the most part, I've completely stopped drinking energy drinks. I still drink an enormous amount of tea daily but it's probably better than the shit I was drinking multiple times a day before.
The Bad: I'm still drinking. It hasn't really progressed but I can all but guarantee that it's a problem. I've been self-isolating myself and alienating myself from some of my oldest friends. I feel like I don't have the mental energy to take care of my body and all of my daily responsibilities and also have a robust social life. And my work still actively makes me want to self-delete a lot of the time but I am still trapped within it for the time being.
I'm sure there's more for both but I can't really remember them at this point. Life is hard and I feel like I'm just barely able to scrape by.