“My Therapist Says”: 50 Hilarious Memes To Help You Get Over Your Most Recent Mental Breakdown (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertWe as humans need to take care of ourselves, both physically and mentally. Therapy can help our emotional well-being a great deal, and many of us know that. In fact, statistics show that about 30% of Americans have seen a therapist at least once in their lives.
Sometimes, some internet humor can help us as well. That's what pages like My Therapist Says are for. Some mental health-related jokes, memes, and funny quips to deal with your own imminent mental breakdown are always handy.
To find out more about laughing through your anxieties and other mental health problems, Bored Panda reached out to Nicole Arzt, therapist, author, founder of Soul of Therapy LLC, and the face behind Psychotherapy Memes. Check out our conversation with her below about destigmatizing mental health issues one meme at a time!
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Bed is warm. Bed is soft. Bed doesn't judge you. Bed is friend.
All day long I look forward to getting into bed and sitting up and reading.
Yes! I love that feeling of "Ah - bedtime - I don't have to do anything else today".
Yes, I invested in a very nice bed for all the above. I love spending every minute in it that I can.
The bed is a great relaxing activity. I don’t see the issue unless you never leave again…
Generation-X in a nutshell. Forever 35yo. You have no idea how much I miss the 90s.
But fr why is it like this? Logically I know what year it actually is but when I think back it doesn't seem as long ago as the math says it was. I was born in 1985 and this will always be how I see it.
As of 2024, the My Therapist Says Instagram page has over eight million followers. What started off as a group chat between four girlfriends has evolved into a supportive community with many laughs and even advice. The founders of the page, Nicole Argiris and sisters Lola, Gina, and Nora Tash, even wrote a book: "My Therapist Says: Advice You Should Probably (Not) Follow."
The girls describe their page as a place to share "original memes about struggles with anxiety, growing up in the social media generation, and figuring your life out in general." The core message they want to share with the world is that "No matter who you are, dealing with all the tribulations of life, you're never alone and never as 'crazy' as you think."
heyyy thats a manson lyric (from you and me and the devil makes three) :D
Because morning sleep will soon be over and you must then face the psychotic nightmare that we call reality. And your brain knows.
Such truth. I have too many thoughts to deal with at night; then it's morning again and you have to get on with it x
Load More Replies...The best sleep. I did it today. I didn't wake up till 7pm! I slept so much better today than I did last night and that was with sleep meds last night! I woke up at 9 am today, peed and went back to sleep. It was lovely and now my cat's on my lap. A perfect Saturday
Load More Replies...Bruh two things: A, I fall asleep at night like I'm falling into a coma, and B, I'm pretty sure a certain cranky gumball machine would be singing instead.
If I did that, my mother would phone the authorities, and I'd have her and them banging on my door. (I'm a 40's adult). Sounds nice though.
About 20 years ago. Whole county got snowed in without warning hence I did not bring my work laptop home and I just happened to do my weekly shopping the day before. Whole week in pyjamas with zero duties and all the comfort. Lockdowns were different, still good but family, pets and house to take care of did not allow for a single pyjama day.
The four friends, who all grew up in Toronto, Canada, have been in therapy for many years. In their group chat, they often would share advice with each other, starting with the phrase, "Well, my therapist said..." That's what inspired the name of the Instagram page.
"Our therapist, of course, said no such thing, but we thought that it legitimized the advice to the point where we would have to take it," Lola Tash said in an interview with The Daily Mail in 2020. "It was always with the best intentions that we were giving each other advice."
Washing the clothes: 1 hour. Drying the clothes: 1 hour. Folding the clothes: 10-15 business days.
No. I enjoy mindless repetitive tasks. I can turn off my brain for a little while and focus on something that's easy and productive. I like washing dishes, folding laundry, raking leaves, cutting grass, mopping, dusting, etc. My job requires me to think, and being a single parent can be stressful, so I find these tasks to be meditative.
Load More Replies...Or put the oven on. Or done the hoovering. Or fed the cats No, wait, the cats won't allow that one....
We bought an automatic feeder and it cut down on the cats begging us for food every time we are in the kitchen, but sometimes they act like they need our permission or need us to show them there is food in the feeder for them to eat (Petlibro)
Load More Replies...I tell every one of my nephews that they are my favourite. And I'm not lying to any of them
Im so glad to see this is a thing. I definitely have comfort shows. It's like 30 minutes of therapy.
Given how impossible it is to watch new shows, I wonder how I ever watched my comfort shows in the first place.
I have a female friend who has seen Grey's Anatomy about a hundred times. Total psychopath! I love her dearly!🥰
I thought I was the only one with comfort shows. I feel so seen!
i watched The Killing (american version with Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos back to back to back untill Netflix took it off :-(
The girls say their goal is to destigmatize mental health, "finding the humor in the mistakes their mental health journeys have led them on." And many experts agree that the more we talk about how we're not okay, the less stigma there is around it. Therapist and author Nicole Arzt echoes that sentiment, saying that even sharing memes can be a great way to open up about your struggles.
I thought that you usually screw your life between the ages of 7 and 20. Not true! You can screw it anytime you want. I have 56 years of experience so take my word for this.
Here in America, I have the right to remain stupid. It's in the Constitution.
Load More Replies..."elevated perception of priority".... Just lower the bar for concern.
Unfortunately I don't really drink coffee because it doesn't do anything for me and I'm not a big fan of the taste honestly. Any other ideas to help lessen the pain? Legal and safe ideas, of course. Lol
Load More Replies...I'm moving next week and I've taken no time off from work for it so... Yeah...
Good luck with that. I may be having to move in the next few months or so myself. I hope you are able to take some time off work. Take care.
Load More Replies...I don’t yolo get outta here with tude. I’m jomo, the joy of missing out.
I always say "living the dream, just not mine". I'm sure it's someone's sad, terrible, f*cked up dream.
"Mental health issues are often wrapped in shame," Arzt told Bored Panda. "That shame often says, 'I'm alone in this. Nobody else understands. Something is deeply wrong with me.' While memes don't exactly 'fix' that real pain, they can provide a sense of shared camaraderie. There's such a powerful validation in just knowing you're not alone and that your struggles are not solely yours."
I'm sorry to hear that. We all need someone to talk to and know that we're being heard.
Load More Replies...LOL me. I mention some s**t forgetting it ain't normal to do that and people get uncomfortable
It's not abnormal to share your s**t unless you're sharing it with strangers. People you know shouldn't feel uncomfortable if you need to get something off your chest. That's what friends do for each other.
Load More Replies...I did that earlier this year and almost missed my flight. Day 1: Missed an international flight due to serious fatality accident shutting down the freeway for hours. Much time on phone with airline reps got me rescheduled for next day and nearly $1500 in extra fees waived. But with warning of don't miss next flight / can't do this twice. Day 2: I am at airport hours early, get my boarding pass and wait several hours at the gate. Close to flight time, still no agents at the desk. Found out they moved the flight to a different gate but didn't bother posting that at the first gate. Other gate close by - ran to it - made flight just in time.
In Portland, OR, I get on the plane and I have seat #65 or some such number. Anyway, I'm walking down the aisle of the plane and I get to the last row of seats and it's #50. There is no seat #65. They've got me on the wrong plane. Are you kidding me? I appear calm but inside I'm flipping out. Instant panic sets in, as well as a severe case of dry mouth. As politely as I could without having the benefit of speech (the dry mouth made that impossible) pushed my way out of the plane and the agent directs me to the correct gate and plane. Fortunately I made my flight and proceeded to drink a couple of cocktails, which I had to pay for. I was thinking a free buzz was the least they could do considering I almost ended up in Iowa when in reality I was headed for San Diego.
My wife insisted we get her to GRR no more than an hour prior to her flight. "Fine", just about an hour on the dot. Maybe 10 minutes earlier than that, on a Saturday. Hung around the airport awaiting a missed flight call as TSA was insanely long. She made it, just. "Now do you understand why I want to get there 2 hrs prior?".."shutup"
There's a reason the airports are public about what time they want you to arrive. It varies by airport but each one knows how long it generally takes to get people through their checking / screening system. A local airport literally only has two gates and two TSA checkpoints (and expansion from when they used to have only one). Getting to boarding is fairly quick. Seattle a lot more. I assume some airports in New York or wherever are absolute zoos.
Load More Replies...I just sit at the gate with half an hourly visits to the nearest McDonalds WHAT DO YOU MEAN
I picked up a ham sandwich wrong somehow and threw my back for a week.
Same, except it was my work badge. Weighs maybe 10 grams, but I was in horrible pain for days
Load More Replies...I got asked if I'd heard those fireworks just now. The fireworks were me standing up.
Waking up my cats and getting the stink eye, because whenever I move my body snaps, crackle and pops like Rice Krispies.
This happened to my wrist yesterday. Apparently I /can/ clap with one hand. From the inside.
Arzt provides therapy sessions for mental health professionals. She even runs the Psychotherapy Memes Instagram account, so she's not a stranger to the ways the internet jokes around about their mental health. She says that humor can sometimes even be helpful during therapy sessions.
10. Last minute "I don't want to, I thought you knew that!"
Load More Replies...Nailed it. Foot rubbing? Mine go over and over and over each other...and rocking rocking too but my therapist says that's good cos it grounds me
I'm a rocker too. Don't even realize I'm doing it until my friend tells me to stop. Therapist said it's okay. It's called "Self soothing". I'm good with that.
Load More Replies...What's return policy? Cuz I've been on this starter pack for nearly four decades and it still is busted.
Wow. I have a new-found respect for people dealing with anxiety
Drinking lots of water just to have something to do so you don't feel restless. At least that's how I saw it.
Load More Replies...Lots of peeing... Take a Propanalol to calm heart rate, try to calm breathing with breathing exercises/techniques, sweat makeup off, decide it's not worth going out... Fix makeup and HAVE to go out because you cannot miss this hospital/physiotherapy hospital appointment. If you do, you won't get another one for around three months... Pull your Big Girl Pants on, Strap your rucksack and calipers on. Get the F**K On With It......... Tell yourself - You can have your breakdown when you get back home. Faced worse, been through worse. Screw it.
I say let's pretend I can do this. It at least gets me to most Dr appts. And the groceries but I do not socialize with anyone but my mom so eh, room for improvement.
Load More Replies...I look forward to the day I can forget Donald Trump ever existed.
You can do that now? I have social media and people I’ve excised forever.
In summer I'm depressed in a sweaty, swollen, oily, mosquito bitten way
Sorry, I got a chuckle out of that. It was so described so well. Do you happen to live in the South Eastern part of the country?
Load More Replies...Winter is so awesome because it's like known as depression season because of the lack of sun and I don't have to pretend to not be depressed 🥰
There was a man from the west. Was depressed and depressed and depressed. And depressed and depressed. And depressed and depressed. And depressed and depressed and depressed.
I totally agree with everything except for one single word. "fall"?? It's "Autumn"!!!
Swap summer and winter, this is it for me. I hate summer and love winter.
For me it's winter and the holidays. Actually I should say it begins in the first day of Fall because that's when the stores start putting up all the X-mas Paraphernalia and then TV hits us with the onslaught Christmas Commercials. By the end of the season, I'm in a pile.
"Humor is a great way to build and maintain rapport. Therapy is a vulnerable process," Arzt explains. You're sharing some of your rawest stories and deepest pains with another person, and that can feel scary! Humor sometimes creates a necessary lightness amid all that heavy work."
Happened to me. They refused my sabbatical offer so I had to resign. My manager told me the HR will agree for sabbatical only under the condition that the employee is bedridden. Okay. Fine. Accept my resignation then.
Wut? That's not what sabbatical is! When you're bedridden you're ill...
Load More Replies..."Ughhh. There’s people out there with help for that." sound familiar?
Load More Replies...oooohhhh that baby is judging how bad the killer has disposed of the body. they must have gone to walmart and bought the murder kit (bleach, rope, gloves, tarp, and large Rubbermaid container) all at one time WITH a credit card ON camera. that's just begging to be caught.
Why do they always do that? What morons. Also, I would put the body in a dumpster. Nobody looks in there for days.
Load More Replies...So, this is going to sound morbid as f**k, but in 14 years we have discussed true crime and forensic shows several times over the years at work. When you're bored you will talk about random s**t to past the time. Even if you're not into TC, EVERYONE loved to talk about Forensic shows, because it involves blood and other body fluids, which is something that is part of our jobs. Between all of the (LabRats) our nickname, have pretty much identified mistakes and how to plan the perfect Murder. Whether it's Pre-planned or spontaneous, we've figured out body disposal as well as destroying physical and forensic evidence. So my whole life has been around everything ranging from Food Service, Hospitality, Science Geeks, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, Military, Biker Clubs, Gangs, D**g Dealers, Farmers, Rural and Country Life, which means you pick up a TON knowledge about the most random s**t. At this point I think I can commit the perfect Murder and get away with it.
However, there's a time and place for humor in a therapy session. "At the same time, we want to be mindful of deflecting with humor," Nicole points out. "Humor shouldn't be used as a way to avoid feelings or emotional processing. This can perpetuate avoidance patterns."
Should get a crystal ball and start a business. If it happens i predicted it, if i doesn't it didn't because i predicted it therefore someone messed up the future because of my prediction
No but us over thinkers will damn well try. So much energy wasted on what will go wrong. It's never helped that what goes wrong is usually what you thought would go wrong.
Load More Replies...Thanks, that reminds me I have chocolate icecream. So that's what's for breakfast.
Nice, very retro. I'm more inclined to languish
Load More Replies...My dilly dally is lying around watching My Hero Academia and Regular Show while eating cupcakes and peanuts while drinking mango nectar.
Nicole also cautions against coping with mental health issues through jokes and memes. "Mental health issues are so serious and can be life-threatening," she reiterates. "There's nothing inherently funny about them. But, paradoxically, it can feel bold to choose to examine your greatest struggles and laugh a bit about them."
I feel that last sentence should have been, "I Ragert Nuthin"
Load More Replies..."You're 10 minutes late getting back from lunch" "yeah, that was a weird time in my life" I like it, it works for everything
Never walk across hot coals in clown shoes. It creates a huge carbon footprint.
I really a, enjoying this new thing where folks are using "girl" like "dude" or "bro" for certain contexts rather than gender. My oldest daughter says "bro" to everyone including her mom. It's fine, I used to call everyone "dude" (NOT my parents lol). I didn't think I needed "girl" but there are times it just fits so much better. And I cannot tell you why.
Also, in the case of me on Mondays, hungover. Since I hit 40yo hangovers last two days now.
Arzt also emphasizes the importance of community and connection when joking around with others. "If you can laugh with another person, that's even better," she told Bored Panda. "That connection matters, it's so important. It doesn't take away the pain. It just shifts some of the energy around in a way where the pain may not feel so isolating or debilitating."
There is a running joke in my house. I ordered close to 20 t-shirts while in the ER on morphine waiting to have my appendix removed. Now any time I take anything that might have side effects I get, "no t-shirts!".
Load More Replies...Luckily i do this with the 3€ phone cases instead of clothes or electronics... Maybe o should splurge on the kitchen organiser though...
Email me your findings as soon as they become available to you. Thanks bye.
hank's doing better than psychology at replicating his experiments
I laughed so loud and hard that I startled myself because I'm home alone and it echoed.
My best friend, my two cats... One cat so that's 2 already... I'd count my fridge too but i get annoyed at it when it rans out of snacks. The audacity
8 hours straight of work is too much, and people need to stop scheduling meetings at 3pm, I'm pretty worthless by then. I need a siesta at 3, not an all hands meeting
Depending on my weird as f**k shifts that I always worked it was: Morning 5:00 am-1:30 pm (8:00 am-11:30 pm), Afternoon 3:30 pm- 12:00 am ( 6 pm-9:30pm), Overnight 10:00 pm- 6:30 am ( 12:00 am- 4:00 am), so I think you can tell and understand why it was hard as hell to schedule things and friends and family couldn't seem to understand.
Load More Replies...People, really? Nope cats only. This is why I love social media. I interact with people and then when I'm annoyed I put it away or just watch cat videos.
Nope. Third comment from the top. The guy has 1 friend but he's "iffy". Iffy beats out 1 solid.
Load More Replies...I love my husband, but 3 weeks summer vacation, and I'm happy he's going back to work. Now he needs surgery of his shoulder. I feel sorry for him, he's in a lot of pain. But he needs to stay home for 3-4 months after surgery. He will succeed in driving me absolute insane... 🤪
So, Pandas, what do your therapists tell you? Do you have any ill-advised funny quips to share with us? Or maybe one of the memes on this list hit particularly close to home and elicited a belly laugh out of you? Don't be shy, and let us know in the comments!
Or drive a car whose brakes don’t work, or find only filthy, overflowing toilets
I'm often trying to drive or brake and realize I'm in the back seat fir some reason. My dream toilets are filthy, overflowing, and have no privacy.
Load More Replies...So true. I can dream of high school students in weird scenarios that I haven't seen for 30 years.
Most of background characters in dreams are friends from elementary school (I'm 61 and haven't seen any of those people since I was 14).
Load More Replies...Mine are always restrooms with like 30 stalls that are either occupied, or there is just a hole in the ground where the toilet should be. Sounds weird but I have these alllllll the time!😦
Mine is there are never any doors, or all the toilets are in one big room so there’s no privacy. And if there is a door it won’t lock and people keep coming in. So bizarre.
Load More Replies...Apparently it's very common, although not one I've ever had.
Load More Replies...That's how you get "sorry, Chad gets the promotion, he has kids"
Load More Replies...Why is it up to the employee to justify it? We need to normalise it being the responsibility of the employer to justify not giving you a parish.
Insomnia, boredom, depression and online ordering is a lethal combination for my bank balance.
I bet Taylor Swift would struggle to put her laundry away the same day too, if she didn't have people for that.
That’s cute you think she has laundry. I bet her tour/performance rider includes specific undergarments, hosiery, towels, linens and she wears them once, never seeing them again. Her outfits are probably managed by a stylist and her causal “on the ranch” or “at the beach estate” wear consists of a handful of favorite pieces of which she has duplicates and they’re also dry cleaned. Her housekeeping people have laundry. 🤣😆
Load More Replies...I'm not a TS fan but there are 3 things that I respect about her: #1 She writes her own songs and is involved in the recording.#2 In order to prep for her tour she would run on a treadmill and sing all 44-46 songs in her set list. #3 TS concert tickets may be insane, but she actually puts in the effort to put on a good show and doing that many songs each night for 2-4 nights straight at each stop takes a toll on your throat. Depending on the number of stops at each city, that is anywhere from 92-184 songs back to back dancing the entire time. So, yeah I have to give her props at least where that is concerned.
She has a team of People doing all the work for her while she enjoys her luxury bus. Some songs do not take as long as people think to record.
True, some songs might not take too long to record but there is a lot more than just the recording that goes into making a song. For example, writing the lyrics and the music or beats/sounds to then recording and editing, ect.
Load More Replies...Is it a live album? Those are usually recorded while on tour. That's kind of how it works.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I heard my first TS song just a couple of months ago. Not my style of music and after seeing a short YT clip, I think she goes way overboard on the theatrics, bells and whistles at her live shows. Music should stand on it's own. Having expressed that unnecessary opinion, I give her much respect for publicly backing Harris in the presidential race for 3 reasons: first, it took some brass ones to do so without knowing if it would damage her career. Second - All the little "Swifties" (is that what they call themselves?) place great power in what she has to say and she's got millions of them. This will inspire them to get out and vote. And lastly, It has pissed Trump off so bad, she now lives rent free in his twisted, self obsessed mind and he's crumbling right before our very eyes. This makes me very happy.
The album was recorded before the tour. The tour is to promote sales of the album. That's how the pop music industry works.
I forgot I just took my meds when I agreed to that and regret it horribly let’s never do this again. lol
I get up 3 hours before I need to start my day, because I need at least 2 to just noodle around…
Same. Only my noodling is taking longer than normal lately.
Load More Replies...For my area it's Autumn, but also Fake Fall because just around Halloween it's going to be Summer Strikes Back
Weird, Michigan has been in the 70's-80's and will be into next week. Does not seem to be any gradual transitions anymore- warm..warm..warm..cold. Spring is just the reverse.
Load More Replies...I have to go to bed at 8 for work, so it makes me really happy when it starts to get dark early so I don't have to go to bed while it's still light outside like a toddler.
6:30??? In Seattle, sunset in December is around 4:20 PM. And it's probably raining.
I hear ya. I'm near Mt. Hood in Oregon. It does get dark earlier here than other parts of the country and the sunlight takes it's time showing up in the mornings. It's dark when you go to work and dark when you drive home. And that's the day shift. But, it also stays light out longer in the summer. Doesn't get dark until around 10:00pm.
Load More Replies...It is isn't even daylight savings time yet. It is coming up very soon though.
I miss not having seasons. All this yearly fluctuation is confusing. Summer all year long is my happy place
I love it when it gets dark early. That way I don't feel guilty falling asleep while it's still light out at 7pm.
I get depressed in summer, autumn is a relief (I still get depressed, but not because of the heat and the sun)
I also get depressed from the heat and sun. Summer sucks.
Load More Replies...I think this fall I'm going to set my clocks ahead instead of fall back. Right now it's dark at 7:30pm. If I set the clock ahead, it'll be dark at 8:30. And since I always sleep in, I'll consider this a win/win. Maybe I'll set them ahead two hours.
The best is iced Vietnamese coffee! Perfection, and diabetes, in a cup
Load More Replies..."If seven maids, with seven mops, swept it for half a year, do you suppose" the walrus said, "that they could get it clear?" "I doubt it," said the carpenter, and shed a bitter tear.
Thanks a lot! You sent me down the Walrus and the Carpenter rabbit hole! I loved that poem when I was a kid.
Load More Replies...Ohhhhhhh you did not mess with Halloween. Thems fighting words where I’m from.
I think they were actually messing with capitalism. At least in the US, around Halloween is when you start seeing Christmas decorations / marketing in stores.
Load More Replies...Complete with celebratory 4 day weekends for the entirety of the 3 month long holiday. 😆
Load More Replies...In Canada it's ThanksHalloMas (Our Thanksgiving is October 14 this year) I am Thankful for Halloween LOL
8 billion and how are you to judge North Sentinelese humor, maybe they're the best jokes ever. you wouldn't know.
From what I understand, dairy cows enjoy being milked.
Load More Replies...But then they either kill you for meat or breed you constantly and then take your babies away to get your milk. I think it would be better to be a spoiled house cat.
Don't be in a mood. I udderly think they did. Let's be flank about it
You've milked the joke for all it's worth and creamed the competition, putting me on the horns of a dilemma. So I'll just hoof it out of here with my tail between my legs. I know which side my bread is buttered on.
Load More Replies...Plus you can take very messy poops and you don't even have to wipe. Cows on springtime grass are a real treat. Okay in the fields, less fun when they do it in the milking parlor.
At my friend's ranch, they loaded the cows on a truck. The cows thought they were going on a field trip. Dumb cows!
i read this as picnic attack and was concerned they were doing picnicking wrong....or right depending on how you look at it
If I recieved this response from one of my most trusted friends? I'd probably end up giggling and coming down out of it that way!
I might be in a panic attack next week. Maybe the following week also.
my mom got me a shirt that says "I'm not responsible for what my face does when you're talking" and I think that sums me up nicely.
I'm already holding my tongue, you can't expect me to hold my face, too.
My friend group in a nutshell: Them: "What do you do when you see a red flag? You walk away!" Us: "No we date them."
Oh i just bring a book. My best friend is unmedicated adhd, i know when she says 3pm it's actually 4pm but i just in case come at 3pm anyway. Love thy anxiety
I tell her "feel free to block me if i annoy you" and she hasn't yet. Been annoying my best friend for 25 years now, any day now...
Trust me, your best friend is definitely judging you, but they love you too much to admit if.
We don't all run to therapists here, we just put on our stiff upper lip and cope. It's much cheaper, but I couldn't say if it's more successful.
We don't all run to therapists here, we just put on our stiff upper lip and cope. It's much cheaper, but I couldn't say if it's more successful.
