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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stress, mental health improvement, near meltdown, sobriety
Had the kind of day yesterday where every inanimate object and technological gizmo were conspiring against me personallyAnything on a shelf fell off, anything I looked at wrong fell over, every app crashed or froze, Bluetooth wouldn't pair, a broom broke off in the bristle head thing so I couldn't even just replace the stick part without chiseling out the end of the old broken stick, etc
Just exhausting tedious stressful bullshit non stop
Still managed to make myself go to the gym and had a relatively good leg day
Absolutely gassed, walking funny, finally get to the shower
The shower curtain bar fucking falls off and on my head, don't have my glasses on, can't see shit to fix it, water still running and getting on the floor, just a shit show
ALMOST lose my fucking shit and start throwing everything and breaking shit (more)
Manage to do DBT self dialogue shit after I loudly curse a couple times and Velma without her glasses/McGyver my way out of that bullshit
Almost road rage at a dumbass not using their blinker on the way home and get pissed at my shitmobile's screechy fan belt for the heater/AC trying to defog the windows and punch the horn a couple times
Didn't lose control
Old me definitely would have and this would've made me go on an 80 proof 1.75L nosedive for a couple days, stayed dry this time
One day at a time
The fuckin' way she goes bud