Here’s An Instagram Page Dedicated To Memes That Would Benefit From A Therapist’s Consult (50 New Memes)
If you ever wonder what it feels like living with anxiety, picture being envious of traffic lights for being able to make a decision with zero effort to turn green or red depending on the situation. Yeah, it’s sometimes that ridiculous, but the struggle is real.
Luckily, there are meme pages out there who aim to do great things in this harsh world. Enter Anxiety Within, an Instagram page that aims to raise awareness on mental health through memes. Because the world would be a darker place without memes at this point.
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On the other had, it leads to wearing red hats and voting for Trump.
And believing that the earth flat, or that vaccines cause autism.
Load More Replies...You know how JK Rowling said that before modern plumbing, wizards used to pǐss and shĩt on the ground and then magic it away? Lacking critical thinking is like that only your pǐss and shĩt is just all over the place and everyone else has to just live with it while good people try our hardest to clean up as much of it as we can.
I used to sit in the breakroom and watch the guys who filled the snack/soda machines. They whistled and smiled the whole time. I wondered how I could be like that.
"critical thinking skills" include evaluating information sources. For an informed opinion on medical questions ask professional medics (medic*s* - not just one), not the local association of Karens or . For info about dinosaurs ask paleontologists, not a group of bible interpreters. Thinking outside the box is an approach you try AFTER actual thinking inside the box, aka learning, took place - not before and certainly not instead.
Like a list, a very detailed list with clear instructions. I know I used to fight the 1 with parts a,b,c but now I welcome it.
especially since now, everything I do is for somebody else. I have no time for me or things I need to do, I need to manage expectations. Every time I do it how I would think it should be done the world comes crashing in. "What, are you crazy? Don't do it like that!". "I need it now! I don't care that it won't be actually needed for another month from now... I WANT IT NOW!" At least 13yo me had the OPTION of refusal. Buddy, wait till you're an adult. You'll be sorry you ever grew up!
Load More Replies...Yes indeed, BeaBea -- with pictures, drawings, diagrams and lists..
Load More Replies...I have anxiety just in general, which in other words means I'm scared of being harmed or endangered (I thought it was paranoia, but it's more of a mix to get the result that I have), though some people don't believe that since "You have gone alone in public.". Like yeah, usually people don't have to follow me to my job.
Load More Replies...I'm good at fooling people into thinking I don't have debilitating depression and can barely take care of myself. Though recently I'm trying not to do it as much.
Alcohol was my crutch in social situations but also added to the anxiety if I did anything even remotely embarrassing. Now I just stay home & hang out with my dog 😃
As mentioned previously, Anxiety Within is an Instagram meme page that deals with all manner of memes that revolve around the concept of anxiety. The page was created in 2018 and has since then amassed a following of nearly 300,000 followers who are digging the 8,640+ posts already up on the page. The posts are mostly memes, but do include some let's be real time with educational posts about mental health.
This might sound very silly, but my discipline started when I started making my bed. It's hard at first, but gets much easier. I totally forget about it after it's done. But when I get back home I remember I have achieved something/anything. And I have a nice bed to go to sleep in.
Load More Replies...The last last time I woke up naturally, just feeling refreshed and ready to go, instead of mush-brained and heaven-limbed, was in May of 2018. It’s such an unusual occurrence in my life that I remember the individual times it’s happened.
Someone recently asked me "you know the feeling when you wake up well-rested after a full night of dreamless sleep?" and I was like "lol, no."
I've heard of people who live like this. I think its made up by Big Mattress Co.
My hubby is like this! Not always but often enough. I'm the most jealous person on earth
Load More Replies...Yeah, the people who sleep perfectly and wake-up not feeling tired are possibly not human, they....they can't be!
diciplin is one of the most important things to train, and like a mucle it goes limp if you don't use it. That was really easy to say, and very hard to practice.
God I literally pray for God to help me help myself. I hit my head and ever since then... I just can't find motivation for the smallest of things or most important things...
Start learning about ADHD, autism, and other disorders that impact executive function. Lots of YouTubers talk about similar experiences with ADHD and things they do to overcome it. The techniques are NOT what a motivational speaker would tell you to do.
Load More Replies...I am supposed to be doing my homework. I want to do my homework. I want to get off boredpanda. (Ooh, maybe if you’re super mean, it’ll tell my brain to stop?)
Or you just got met with impatience, anger, or shaming everytime you asked for something, so you internalised that and are afraid to ask for anything.
Yep, and I wanna watch my little pony and Martha speaks, and if my brother catches me so much as looking at them, he shames me.
Load More Replies...I only learned this recently about myself. Its a hard train of thought to break as well but I guess knowing it is a start.
Knowing it is a *great* start. And it can sometimes be the work of a lifetime to change, but every small victory is worth the battle.
Load More Replies...So, a bit of context: anxiety is a feeling of unease, whether worry or fear, which can range from mild to severe. Now, if they come and go—say, around an exam—that is normal. However, some folks find it hard to control their worry, and it becomes a constant in their lives, turning into full-blown panic attacks, disorders or phobias.
As someone who works in a very email-y job, there are very few emails that deserve your haunting guilt for responding late.
I actually took this as a sarcastic response...maybe that's just me
Load More Replies..."Yours screaming into the void" is brilliant and I'm going to start using that at work.
To hell with " Best regards " I am going to use that too.
Load More Replies...If I start typing "Sorry," my keyboard Auto suggests, "Sorry for the late reply."
Yeah, I bet it made his day and put a spring in his step...
Load More Replies...If it were just emails... I am also drowning in chats, channels from WebEx and Slack.
Server: "did you really intend to necro post? The user last logged in 17 years ago..."
Think about it, pink toed tarantulas...maybe it's not toes...maybe it's pink flip flops....OoO
f**k this now i have the ick, I HATE SPIDERS WEARING FLIP FLOPS GET OUT OF MY HEAD
My mother will lose her s**t if anyone pops their gum within 20 miles of her 🤣
Trauma didn’t make me stronger, it just made me into a salty codger who can’t understand why you young punks love traipsing around on my lawn.
Yes, so strong that you turn into a frightening ogre that terrifies everyone else. Nice.
Ah, yes, we've met before. I must tell you though, that I automatically raise my voice- when excited. You have missed so much...
lol... a fine mist indeed... looking ever so much like a real heavy vape hit.
Therapist taught meek passive me how to respond to criticism from my assertive wife. The idea was she would see me standing up for myself and give me more respect. It just escalates her criticism to a higher level.
That sounds really painful. As a small silver lining, you are now coming from a greater position of strength where you are making your feelings known and advocating for yourself. Your wife's response is no longer a "you problem" insomuch as you have done the job of giving her your feedback. What she does with that is a "her problem" - you cannot control or influence her response in any way. Things will only improve if she does her part and that takes effort. If she isn't willing to put in the effort, then nothing will change. If you don't get the emotionally regulated response you are hoping for, then it does becomes a "you problem", as in, what will you do - accept this and figure out how to manage your lot in life, or cut bait. I wish you strength on this difficult path - don't ever stop advocating for yourself.
Load More Replies...Anxiety can ultimately affect many aspects of life. If it’s mild, it can be merely annoying having to, say, check the stove or the door lock a couple times more than the average Joe.
If it’s severe, however, it could be an immense hurdle to overcome in terms of moving on in life or simply coming out of your home for fear of the unknown.
Anger also makes you blind to other points of view or opinions. It's a primal tool.
Anger is a response to being violated. If that's happening, then other points of view be damned! Just stop hurting me.
Load More Replies...Anger is useful - it helps us to set boundaries and protect ourselves. (I admit, this was a revelation to me after growing up feeling absolutely abhorrent of the emotion because I knew where it could lead.)
Interesting, but too narrow giving it limited application . I view anger as a secondary emotion, a defensive response to invalidation. Invalidation can bring up a number of emotional responses, which then trigger the anger defense. Like any tool, anger can be beneficial or harmful, it depends on how you use it.
Not sure it loves you, but its biological purpose IMO is to make you notice that what's happening to you is out of line with your meaning structure.
Whoa... This is so true it's alarming and disarming at the same time.
Haha, I wish, my anger just tells me to take my cat and leave.
Well it is often the fear of failure that drives the procrastination. It is when the fear becomes too hard to deal with that you procrastinate in order to distract yourself in an attempt at easing the load on your mind. It is a short term strategy, that only makes the trouble further down the line worse... but that is only a problem for future-you, and that guy is way easier to screw over, as he is (at least at this moment) only a hypothetical being.
I read something way back when that said many procrastinators are perfectionists. That way, you have a built in excuse: "Yeah, it's not perfect/exactly how I wanted, but it's great considering I couldn't spend much time on it."
Load More Replies...That's the first thing my mind went to as well. It's a bit too recognizable too 😅
Load More Replies...Did I leave the iron on at home? Better turn around the car and check. But you don't own an iron... still better go check.
But so rewarding!! You can bet on winning the "who's most messed up" competitions for years!
If floating in a half-dream state is sleep
Load More Replies...It includes anxiety, gifted kid burnout, a dog, my brother's 6am alarm, and really weird dreams
I discovered I have circadian rhythm disorder, which makes my body insist on a sleep schedule that's different from most people's. I tried going to bed at exactly midnight for 10 months straight, thinking that would get rid of my insomnia. Didn't work. Then I started going to bed at 4am, when my body naturally wants to sleep. I've had a big improvement from that.
oh its easy. I do it all the time. I go to bed at 11-12 and wake up at 5 or 6. I live in a perpetual state of delirium. Its not that great.
Tried that. Ended up being NEVER going to sleep, and then going to sleep whenever I could (but not enough) and then going to sleep as late as possible to be able to have some me time (and so not enough sleep still).
Load More Replies...In my case, it was getting cancer. Having to wake up at 6 to be at the hospital for treatment at 8 and because I also needed to take pills. By 10 PM I'd be absolutely knackered and just fell asleep. As I'm writing this, it's five minutes to that blessed hour and the only reason I'm still awake is because I need to take my evening pills at 10. Also, 0/10, would not recommend.
And you’d be surprised how prevalent anxiety is these days. In the US, it is reported that over 40 million adults (roughly 19% of the population) have an anxiety disorder. Throw symptoms of depression into the mix and the count increases to a third (32.3%) of adults in the US. Younger people, ages 13 through 18, are most likely to suffer from anxiety, though adults might have it too.
Perhaps not. But it took my therapist one hour in my husband’s presence to go from “gotta fix the marriage “ to “divorce him!”. 50 minutes flat. Prettiest much the first words at my next appointment.
Load More Replies...I made the mistake of family 'therapy'. My psychologist/therapist and my mother's therapist sat there, saw how my parents treated me and still took their side. Like, father compared me to the man who killed the president of Gdansk and said the crazy people should be locked in psychiatric hospital. No one said a word.
I once saw an ad for a sitcom where a woman said to another woman, "Can I take you to meet my therapist? Because she doesn't think you're real."
'Puns' and 'Don't Be Awkward', please change places. It's a no-brainer, thank you.
I also need a slot for "Where did this bruise come from?" And maybe one for "What did I come in here for?"
Load More Replies...There should be a little section for Stupid Things I Said Decades ago that Still Make Me Cringe.
Also....... people I just had a conversation with and said bye but we are in the same store and we see each other again....
We do it with books too, a "Comfort Read" is a book or series that you just go back and re-read again and again.
MLP: FiM was that show for me. I'm 31 now, but I still resonate with all the characters (except rainbow dash) so well, it's like having friends and being in on the joke immediately.
I randomly turned on an episode the other day because there was nothing on and I wanted background noise, started watching it and immediately started crying for reasons still unknown 😅. Great show though.
Load More Replies...I prefer to stream shows because I can first go look up whatever bad might happen and get prepared.
In terms of the whole world, it’s estimated that roughly 301 million people—roughly 4% of the global population—were suffering from some form of chronic anxiety.
Some experts suggest that the reason why anxiety is so widespread is due to the excessive amounts of information we soak in on the daily.
Take that depression! (Hazbin reference for anyone that's been watching)
Quitting can be good. "The challenge is not in going after what you want, but in having the guts to quit that which you don't want, that which doesn't feed your soul, that which doesn't electrify your spirit." full article here: https://www.badasscounseling.com/articles/2015/11/23/lombardi-was-wrong-the-positive-power-of-quitting-to-succeed
I don't like not knowing things so I look things up when I have questions. I then forget all but the most basic facts almost immediately and lose interest.
This is me when I open a door at night and knowing that I locked it but I have to get up and double check anyways.
Are the stove burners off? I know you didn't use them today, but are they off? And the oven, which you haven't used in weeks, is it off?
Load More Replies...Once I went to bathroom at 2:30 in middle of night, on the way back to bed I suddenly realised I forgot to book and buy ticket for morning bus to work.
Me every night "am I sure I set my alarm? Oh yep, good theres the alarm icon." *5 mins later* "oh but is it set for the right time? Good it is." *5 mins later* "but is it set for the right day? Better check that too. Good it is!" *5 mins later* "but am I sure or did I look wrong? What day is it tomorrow again?"
The one nice thing about getting older is waking up at 3 no matter what to pee and again at 5. Nature's alarm clock. Also animals. Chicken are up just before daybreak and house goat wakes up at daybreak and ferrets are up at 6 no matter what
Hey, it's your Brain. Yeah, it's 1 am but did you know that you're always within 3ft of a spider?
Saying it out loud when you do it can help. I do this when I’m packing my passport
As such, these days, people often have trouble understanding what information they need to react to and what ought to be ignored. In turn, this leads to things like obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and phobias, among many others. And factors like the pandemic didn’t help, as there are still signs pointing to higher anxiety rates among the population than they were before covid hit.
Even on vacation I can't relax. I will try to sit down in the sunshine and just chill out and think about all the things that I could or should be doing.
I heard once that “you become the person you needed when you didn’t have anyone.” I think that’s really interesting lens to view life through.
I wish this was true. Too many people who took abuse become abusers themselves.
Load More Replies...This was my therapist literally yesterday. Every time my little boy (2) pushes me away, it flies in the face of the part of me that knows I have to be a better mother than my own because that was my condition for myself to have kids in the first place.
Mine has said similar things. Good ol' emotional neglect. I want everyone I care about to KNOW that I do.
Or because you only received conditional love so you still feel you have to earn it before you can receive it.
That's a great reason to neglect my self-care and slowly self destruct.
nah I'm just gonna leave the clothes on the chair and go make a loaf of bread to eat in front of the tv with a metric ton of butter.
What for? You're just gonna unmake it again later that same day? Be smarter.
Load More Replies...Drink a lot, then learn how to tie your "activation energy" to going to the bathroom. It's called habit stacking.
Anxiety is considered highly treatable. The only problem with that is that, statistically, only 37% of people actually seek therapy and treatment.
Women are more likely to seek mental health treatment. 25.6% (compared to 14.6% for men) have already sought out medical attention and statistics show that women are considered more likely to take medication or receive treatment in general.
Commence overthinking the ways this could be bad
Load More Replies...Observe people who underthink situations, and decide how you like the results. Example - US election 2016.
Wouldn't that be something...to just do it and not think of all the ways it could go wrong.
This is what I think when someone says "Let's just play it by ear" or, even more horrifyingly, "Let's be spontaneous!"
Umm... I'm pretty sure that exists. It's called spontaneity and impulsivity
That's the times I am caught unprepared and have to watch it all become the 'likely worst case scenario'.
It does happen. The 'random' is only what we see cause the person was talking themselves into hating you (for whatever reason) for so long that, to us, it looks random.
Load More Replies...I always wonder why most of my acquaintances never respond to my emails. Did they suddenly stop enjoying my acquaintance? Or was it because I admitted liked a certain food? Or admitted a small religious opinion? Seems people are quick to hate people for the stupidest reasons.
This is my primal fear. Thanks for the social anxiety, abusive ex-boyfriend from 20 years ago!
i hate because of the samwhich in profile pic, what the f**k is that
...and that is one of the reason that combatting depression is so hard. A bit like with alcoholism, what causes the problem masks as the solution.
Reasons why folks don’t seek help include not being able to afford treatment, not knowing how to access the available resources, and succumbing to the feeling of a stigma surrounding mental health treatment. In the case of that last one, most folks tend to tackle the issue themselves, but the problem comes as not many are actually equipped to do so. And so they default to the “grin and bear” tactic.
Switch the first and last around for me, I love winter, and hate spring.
Spring is the worst because I'm expecting summer to finally get here but then we get snow in April
For me is it Spring: depressed but did we get enough rain for wildflowers this year?
Can we get a Marie Kondo method of therapy, where you and the therapist agree "This does not spark joy" and you can just bin that trauma and never have to deal with it again?
I'd love Dumbledore's Pensieve, where I can dump all the 💩 in my mind so I don't have to keep tripping over it!
I let my mind wander at a work meeting and it never came back.
I don't know where my mind is, right now but wherever it is, I hope it's having a good time.
I had a coworker ask me today how I’ve managed to work here so long (12 years). Without hesitation I told her indifference. I let go of everything I don’t have direct control over and focus only on the one bit I’m doing. I couldn’t do it until I was pregnant, I cared too much. But when I was pregnant I chose less stress for the health of my child. And I’ve somehow maintained that since then. It just borders on apathy at times.
To circle back to the initial point—that anxiety is often caused by an abundance of information—there was actually a study conducted back in 2020 that showed how the digitization of society can add to anxiety. Turns out, stress and anxiety that’s related to the use of technology can lead to demoralization and frustration, information fatigue, loss of motivation, dissatisfaction at work and decreased individual productivity.
I gave my therapist an anxiety attack. She had to be like, "that was intense, I bet you could use a breathing exercise, we'll do it together."
Load More Replies...I just got through the first 10 minutes and darn it, the hour has gone
I love this! I'm also very good at lying about how I feel so beware, therapist! ;-) Mine had to tell me not to smile when I was recounting traumatic things.
Mine told me I was smiling while telling how horrible I was feeling. I really didn't know I was doing that, I guess it became default mode at some point..
Load More Replies...I'm doing good at doing bad. You might even say I'm an overachiever.
After waiting for 5 weeks to get in to see the Therapist, I am not as traumatised and anxious as I was 5 weeks ago.
It summons Michael Jackson. Shhh, please don't. You thought the plastic surgery looked bad before...
Load More Replies...Anyone else thinking "haha lele" sounds like an instrument? I kind of want to learn to play it.
Man, I read that wrong so many times thinking huh?! And then I saw the things on the wall 🤦. Gonna go bury myself in the sand ...
If you, or someone you know, is struggling with mental health issues and anxiety, know that there is no shame in seeking help. You can call the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Helpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or check out some of the other crisis helplines.
But if scrolling is your way to alleviate stress, there’s more where that came from. And if that isn’t enough, there’s an entire Instagram page waiting for you.
The three hardest things to say: I was wrong I need help Worcestershire sauce
I’m not going to repeat what I thought here; I will say this meme has definitely been accurate more than I’d like to admit….
That's almost exactly how I feel shyrali I do the same thing. I'm working on it! We can retrain our brains
Because for those of us who have been abused, isolation came to mean the abuse was over and we finally had some relief.
Yep. And it feels like if you try to get help, they (your brother) will make fun of you again and push you off the cliff into the stampede of bison (wait is that lion king?)
I think of it as pulling up the drawbridge to shut out all the noise, unhelpfulness and general overstimulation I can't tolerate at that moment.
Is anyone else such a people.pleaser that they agree with everything the therapist says? I've tried therapy a few times but it's a disaster as I don't want to let the therapist down by showing all my crazy and also I tell that I'm all better after a 5 min convo so I don't hurt their feelings. Just a very expensive way of nodding and smiling at a stranger whilst dying inside.
This is what having ADHD is like; only there's like, 47 of me in my brain and they're all interrupting each other all the time.
This feeling, the existence is too much can I please be non-existent? feeling, thank goodness for meds that help life seem more manageable.
Telling the therapist they've gone into therapy to predict people's actions and pretend to have some control over circumstances...
That's definitely a possibility. We are human after all, not robots. Some of us are vile, some are brilliant, some are just trying to understand things themselves, so the best way to learn is to teach. Doesn't mean you can't face the truth. It's just difficult
Load More Replies...I do it because subconsciously I hate myself. but Im working on it.
Yup. It's part of my therapy. And I'm sick of them gaslighting me that my childhood was perfect and they don't understand why I have CPTSD.
Load More Replies...My parents had real problems that they have struggled with. I don't blame them for what they can't help. Getting help was unheard of back then, you soldiered through and put on a good front. Blaming them is useless, I blame our lack of understanding wholistically in trying to overcome bad mental actors in our heads.
And no child protection services nor division of family services. They never existed when my mom was a kid so there was literally nothing that could be done to save her and she became a narcissist and abused me.
Load More Replies...My mom once angrily told me "You've never really grown up!" Well, gee, Mom, who was in charge of me when that was failing to happen?
Once my mom said 'you dont know what abuse is". Wow.
Load More Replies...My parents' suffered the same depression I do. I can't blame them for not having the answers nobody else does.
No, cause my parents are no longer alive. I wish I could though, LOL
Billy Connoly once described his year as "should auld acquaintance be forgot, happy birthday to you, oh jingle bells jingle bells!"
I have also been guilty of this more than I care to admit; life is a work in progress.
I also put the con in disconnecting from any group or people I try to connect with because I don't think I'll be welcomed or tolerated.
Just means they weren't your group. Not that you or them are bad people. Some people just don't mesh well. And that's okay.
Load More Replies...I'm going to have nightmares now, trying to figure out how this photograph could ever have been called into existence - I thought the Cosmos prohibited this kind of thing.
Anxiety and no sleep is worse than that.
Load More Replies...Let's play... we're gonna go over everything you said today....123 go! Tonight's special guest is those texts you sent your bestie.
Also, that one time you said something super cringey as a teen, yeah, you're gonna remember that in detail.
Like that time *22 years ago* I walked into a pole because my crush waved to me. 😬
Load More Replies...I don’t remember mistakes, I think about mortality and what’s after death.
Just in case you'd like a little more horror: with every birthday, a few more items are added to your "top mistakes" list- but nobody ever deletes any, so it becomes "top 62", "top 105" ...
I've come to spend two years not talking to you or anybody else again
Load More Replies...why do funny people always have depression *fun fact* the purple teletubbie was an alcholict and died of ice
Charlie Chaplin made a good living with this meme- 100 years ago. Because? Everybody in the audience identified.
we will. It will be the hour or so before we die so yay!
Load More Replies...How are there enough people who said they don’t find it appropriate to make a whole 1%?
I find it comforting that the more time I've spent in therapy, found the right combination of medications and learned actually *helpful* coping mechanisms, I find fewer and fewer of these memes relatable as time goes on.
we will. It will be the hour or so before we die so yay!
Load More Replies...How are there enough people who said they don’t find it appropriate to make a whole 1%?
I find it comforting that the more time I've spent in therapy, found the right combination of medications and learned actually *helpful* coping mechanisms, I find fewer and fewer of these memes relatable as time goes on.
