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 got high too many times this week and realised I don't enjoy being high at all anymore. So yesterday morning I threw out my weed, pipe, grinder, everything. I quit.
Weed addiction was both a symptom and cause of my depression. I would get high, be unhappy that I was high for a while, eat loads of food and then do it again the next day. It made me completely unable to create anything. It wasn't a part of the person I want to be.
Maybe some day I will be able to have a healthy relationship with weed. I'll be able to smoke a bit after a long day of work once a month and relax. But right now, my mental state is nowhere near good enough to be putting weed into my body. I'm on the long path of recovery from depression and quitting weed has to be a part of that.
I think you made a good decision, keep us updated on your recovery and your streak