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Self Improvement
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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.
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- 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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Wait, the whuh-huh? There's a specific term for this stuff?
Idk if that's what academics call it, but there's a whole history to this in the us that starts more or less with hippies doing "eastern philosophy" for individualistic self help purposes, ties in to cults in the seventies, morphed in to self help books, late night tv ads selling supplements and fitness videos, all kinds of fad diets, more weird cults. And in the last few years it's been sigma dorks, insta influencers selling supplmenets, all that. Self help and adjacent stuff like protein supplements and weight loss and all kinds of mystical toxin cleansing bs are a pretty big industry in the us, i think a few billion. I don't have any specific reading for it, i've kind of pieced it together from a bunch of articles over the years, and also living through a lot of it since the 90s.
Oh yeah, the ideology that ranges from “Self-Actualization Magic” at its most obviously fake to “Go To Therapy” At it’s most insidious
What's insidious about suggesting people go to therapy if they have the means?
Yeah. And since therapy is barely regulated in the us there are tons of quakcs there, too. It's kind of a mess to negotiate.
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