This Instagram Account Posts Hilarious Memes About Mental Health, Here Are The 50 Best Ones
InterviewIn the 21st century, there are few topics out there that haven’t already been turned into memes, one way or another. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that even more sensitive things like mental wellbeing has also found its way into the ocean of internet content for our enjoyment.
The “PTSD.eezenuts” Instagram page shares hilarious and relatable mental health and therapy memes. We got in touch with the page’s admin and creator to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments below.
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Not the whistle! Even we autistic people fear the whistle.
Load More Replies...Oh god, I LOVE that!! I'm going to pass that on to my autistic son and grandgirl!
Load More Replies...I remember one of the first articles about Asperger's Syndrome (which I now understand has been reclassified as part of ASD) had said that it was sometimes referred to as "Little Professor Syndrome" because sometimes children on the Autism spectrum, even those who had difficulty with having a two-way conversation, would give "lectures" on topics of interest to them, leading some adults to say they sounded like a "little professor". I've always quite liked the term: "Little Professor Syndrome".
Exactly. Just because someone doesn’t seem to have a disability doesn’t mean the person doesn’t have one. Having a disability doesn’t justify that person being ridiculed and stereotyped either!
What is it with autism and trains? I have been a trainspotter since I was a child (even weirder for a girl), and because of this people always think I'm autistic (I'm not). Why the hell trains, of all things?
I had two students who were autistic and only knew because I was told so at meetings with their case workers. One went on to be a physicist and the other to be the public point of contact for a public relations firm.
My oldest son as a kid, about anything mechanical. He's now QA at a high-quality automotive components factory. My grandgirl, about....well, just about anything. Tori specializes in a wide range of interesting factoids, and one particular fantasy book series. She's almost twelve. Both Terry and Tori own my heart.
NapQueen of the sleepy kingdom, mothers of pillows, breaker of tiredness, master of blankets, mistress of the comfy throne ! 👸🏼👑🦥
Load More Replies...My sister is the ULTIMATE hero - she has narcolepsy - wakes up 4 or 5 times in one day....
Persephone was kidnapped, though. She wasn't there voluntarily.
My understanding is that there were TWO versions of the myth (and there often are at LEAST two versions of myths in Greek mythology). ONE: Hades saw the beautiful Persephone and kidnapped her against her will and cruelly kept her prisoner in the Land of the Dead (also called Hades) until Persephone's mother valiantly turned off Spring, whereupon, because Persephone had eaten a fruit in the underworld (I think it was a fig) although the rules said she must stay in the land of the dead, because Demeter threatened all of humankind with extinction, a deal was struck in which Persephony would spend 3 months a year in the underworld (during which time, Demeter caused it to be winter). VERSION 2 says that Persephone and Hades had mutually fallen in love, but Persephone couldn't escape from her possessive, over-protective mother, so she ran away and arranged for Hades to pick her up in his awesome Death Ride. Whereupon, her mother completely lost her s**t and everybody had to make a deal.
Load More Replies...Reall tho. You could be the happiest person on the outside and dead inside- yes pun intended.
People confused, I down vote. They probably could have found another example. 🙂
Well, it is the Christian and Greek hells, so there’s a significant difference. But HH and HB squad assemble anyway lol
Load More Replies...Bored Panda got in touch with the person behind PTSD.eezenuts and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. Firstly, we wanted to hear why they made a page dedicated to mental health memes. “I started PTSD.eezenuts right in the thick of Quarantine. The “early Covid era” was already a tough, dark and devastating time that happened to coincide with some incredibly intense issues that were arising in my personal life.”
“As someone who already lives and struggles with the effects of PTSD, I was finding it harder and harder to cope with the isolation, fear, depression and uncertainty. I found that memes, dumb as it may sound, were an increasingly comforting means of escape. I had been posting two memes per day on my personal stories and was getting more and more views, reactions and generally positive responses to them,” they shared.
Money is the key to living life. Before you disagree, try living life with zero money and see how far you get.
Only rich people say that money doesn't buy happiness. Well - poverty doesn't either. I'd rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
Load More Replies..."You say that money isn't everything But I'd like to see you live without it." -Silverchair
It’s like when beautiful people say that looks aren’t everything 🙄
Load More Replies...In nature, overpopulation leads to famine, which calls the numbers, leading to a normal population again. Humans have found ways around nature, mass agriculture and transportation and so forth. We've defeated the natural processes that were put in place to keep us from growing to these numbers. However, the result is that every single person is forced to live within the bounds of society. If your desire is to live free in a forest, unless you have enough money to support that desire, you're going to find it really difficult. All the forests are actually owned by someone, or their own by a government that has rules about how long you can stay and so forth. Anyone who fails to fall within societal norms ends up being one of the ones that dies to reduce the population. This is not natural, and it's not right. And the only way to fix it, without killing half the population, is to have government step up and take responsibility for poor people. Provide them with housing, healthcare, etc.
The government basically needs to take responsibility for the problems that society has created, in order to save the people that don't fit within its mold. But what do I know?
Load More Replies...Joan Rivers said that money isn't the key to happiness, but you can have a key made.
I found out after about 6 months that my therapist was the friend of a friend. But at this point we're both Facebook only friends with the mutual friend.
I am weird cause i feel scarred that people could even know what i feel. Like if they know how much a mess i am they will run their s**t out
Actually i think a lot of us secretly feel like that!
Load More Replies...Haha 😄 No, I don't want to settle for bandage. The reason I don't want to have sex with anyone is because no one has cared about my feelings and what I had to say for like a decade now.
“People kept messaging me to say that my stories were a bright spot in their day, or that they looked forward to it like “their favorite show,” and curating those two posts everyday was such a joyful escape for me; it had become the thing I looked forward to the most. I felt almost embarrassed about how much I liked memes and meme pages, but I did (and, of course, still do!) and had been wanting for the longest time to make one of my own.”
Sage advice: When you're high and listen to the bushes give you wisdom
Load More Replies...But I'm fat and unfit so running will definitely make me feel less than alive
But then I might get shot and killed buy a cop. No thanks. (True event. Happened in Winnipeg.)
So are you a zombie now Emily or just a random ghoul?
Load More Replies...Then you'll have great opportunities to form a relationship with a cellmate and lose weight on prison food and maybe you can even feel beautiful, compared to all the prisoners who are uglier than you are. You probably won't have much opportunity to go outside, though, and as for feeling alive ... um ...
My coping mechanisms are the reasons of my problems and I'm stuck in that loop
"My coping mechanisms are causing my problems? Pfft whatever." *proceeds to make thing much worse for myself*
Yup because I'm gonna die sooner from eating too much. I could make it a lifetime with my problems I've had emotional problems since the day I was born. 😆
“I had this name, “PTSD.eezenuts” that kept coming into my head and just decided to go for it one day. I think of it almost like a form of therapy, it’s definitely catharsis- a fun way to take the power back. I joke (with some sincerity) that the more actively I’m posting, the worse my mental health is; I just really find it healing and am so grateful to have this outlet. Running this page has definitely saved me in some ways,” they shared with Bored Panda.
I use tea spoons for anything in a container that is smaller than 20 cm wide. I also have a singular favourite spot on the couch (Sheldon vibes)
I eat everything with a tea spoon but not your average tea spoon, it must be a long handled one.....i also have a favourite burner on the stovetop
Front left is always the best one on the stovetop....
Load More Replies...I ate my favourite things with a small spoon or fork because it lasts longer. My logic.
I use demitasse spoons for my ice cream for the same reason
Load More Replies...It’s not bad vibes from big spoons, it’s that they are too big for my mouth. Tea spoons are the bomb
Big spoons are for soup or cereal. Yogurt, icecream, custard etc, needs a small spoon. Also, if you are still using teaspoons as your 'small' spoon, you are really missing out. Long handled small spoon is as much better than a teaspoon as a teaspoon is better than a big spoon. I have latte spoons now instead of teaspoons, and I will never go back.
I use all of my spoon, except for one, with a vastly different handle design; I don't know where he came from, but he also has a fork brother over there, and those little freaks don't get to leave the drawer, even on "Oh damn, we're out of clean silverware day"
I used iced tea spoons for everything bc, as my husband puts it, "(his wife) will be DAMNED if her hand touches any food while she's eating it in this house". Any other spoon, my hand is too close to the food
I appear as the “weird kid with strange interests and possible trauma” at school. At home I am also the “weird kid with strange interests and possible trauma”
I'm just weird wth strange interests and definite trauma
Load More Replies...That's a powerful image, I like it. You might actually be my dream girl after all.
Someone once described me as 'weird, but harmless,' and part of me shook a little, like I had something to hide.
Well, if you voluntarily walk towards a mur**r, you might be shouted at.. 🙃
I have never identified with any statement as much as I identify with this one.
I am not your dream girl, I won’t marry you and I will not be happy bearing your children. Sorry.
We also wanted to hear their opinion on what helps the page remain so popular with its almost one-hundred-thousand followers. “I think my page is popular for all the same reasons that I enjoy posting on it; the main one of course being that laughter is healing. It’s a mini escape from some of the struggle and darkness of the world around us, but not in a way that denies it- more like an irreverent embrace.”
Yeah; I have enough strength to stop my own roof caving in, but not anyone else's.
Load More Replies...I'm beginning to really hate being told how strong I am, or that I'm such a strong woman. I'm not really. I've just learned to shut down and be quiet so to not offend the sensitive little sprites who can't handle anyone opening up to them. Maybe it's because they're scared they'll recognize something in their life that they thought they shoved into a pit in their head and now feel they have to confront it all over again in flashbacks?
It's not strength, it's we don't care...don't let the secret out though.
My psychiatrist calls it abject denial, but you work with what you got, ya know?
Load More Replies.../This./ And then it's like, 'Cool, cool--thanks. Back to what I was actually screaming like the last load-bearing two-by-four in a sway-backed, multi-story building: I NEED MORE SUPPORT. Please help.'
When I express doubt in my abilities my friends are like "no you got this" NO I DON'T.
I feel like this a lot. Like why don’t they just listen?
Load More Replies...Trust me, I'm faking it. I'm not strong, I'm just emotionally dead inside and it comes out sarcastic and mean.
What terrifies me is when people tell me I am the wisest person they know. I should never be wisest person anyone encounters. Me am the uneducated,.
I've been that person before, and I honestly tell them "No, I'm really not, this is just what I have to be on the outside"
“Roses are red, cacti are prickly, oh my god, that escalated quickly.”
I don't think a demon could handle my job. Pretty sure my supervisor would make it cry.
"Wait what?" *looks around my mind* "Oh unholy Lucifer! I'm outta here!"
I figure that's why I almost never get sick despite having a low white cell count. Nasties come in, go "oh HELL no!" and immediately bail without reproducing.
Pretty sure my demon would beg me to exorcise it after it gets stuck in this clusterf*** for one week…
Haha the "demon" (non-fiction fantasy here since I don't believe in such things) would say please take me back to hell. This is a fate worse than hellfire.
Good luck! My mind drives myself crazy! You're welcome to give it a try.
“Another big reason, and the one I find most poignant, is that the acceptance and acknowledgement of people’s struggles with mental health is relatively new. For most of human history we’ve had to hide it; we’ve been made to feel ashamed, othered, different and bad, but recently there’s been this sort of mental health revolution where it’s become increasingly acceptable and even encouraged to be vocal about your struggles.”
I have ADHD and no medication. I took it for like two months three years ago but I would’ve had to make another appointment to get more but just… couldn’t? And in my mind I just ran out temporarily but like I said it’s been literal years since I got a taste of how “normal” people get to feel every day.
ADHD in a snapshot. Until you are at normal dopamine levels, you live in that wall of “I need to do this, but I can’t do it.”. Those with normal dopamine levels have been taught to think that the ADHD person is lazy, undisciplined, simply must try harder, get it together, etc. And that’s so not what’s happening. The person with ADHD is giving more effort and energy to functioning and getting things done than nonADHD persons can understand. There’s so much that needs to be learned about neuro-divergence.
Load More Replies...I used to take meds until I stopped after high school and no one gave a s**t about my illness because I didn't have to focus on schoolwork anymore.. and overprescribing of stimulants was beginning.
Sometimes; not always, and definitely not for all people.
Load More Replies...All the others were too distant from me but this one surprised me so much I laughed out loud!!!
Is that not normal? Do other people also tend to tune out other people's voices to the point you just don't hear them at all until their voices fade back in audibly to your ears? It annoys people who try to get my attention.
Most people experience dissociation to some degree, so I wouldn't say it's 'abnormal'. It can be an indication of many things, but it's usually part of a mental illness or mental health condition. It can also be a result of experiencing a fair amount of trauma. It's common in people who have depression/ ADHD/ ADD/ autism. I'm sorry to hear people get annoyed with you over it.
Load More Replies...The picture just makes me laugh. I am kinda sensitive about it though because sometimes I do it around my kids and yea... I need to brush up on my DBT skills I think.
“I think one of the best and most fascinating things that’s come out of this is the realization that it’s not just a small group of sad, defective little weirdos skulking in the shadows, it’s everyone. There really is no “normal” in the traditional sense and most people are struggling with their mental health to some degree. It’s not looked down upon so much anymore as a weakness or a defect or a dirty little secret. I think the people who like my page like it because it's an embodiment and celebration of that,” they shared.
I work well under pressure as long as that pressure is less than one singular task due in six days.
I can handle the really hard stuff, it's the little things that make me fall apart.
I can do anything! Anything within my comfort zone, which changes depending on a variety of factors
One of my uncles used the punching the wall-tactics when he was younger. And what did he get out of it? His hand in a cast because he broke it in 3 different places. And we're in Denmark so no cardboard-thick walls here... we do bricks and stones instead.
Yeah I got brick walls can't hang a f*****g thing on it 😤
Load More Replies...If I punch a wall I'll break my hand and not be able to work, which is one of my coping mechanisms. The dental office is my "bubble" where I'm safe and everything is nice and predictable. The outside world is horrible. If I can't go to work, I'll be in trouble
Honestly, I thought that's what they had their legions of friends for
We go to the mental hospital when that happens. Dudes get a talking to....
“It’s not denying the seriousness of what people go through, more so just reframing how we think about it, taking a little of the sting out and providing a place where you can say, “Yeah I hurt and what of it.” It’s irreverent, it’s stupid, it’s funny- it’s dumb little memes about depression and sex and honestly it’s just fun. My hope is that people can laugh, take things a little less seriously, feel seen and understood and maybe even feel a bit better.“
My therapist basically told me I was very self-aware but still kept doing the stupid thing and I was like yeah, that checks out.
Mine just told me "well, what would you do in your situation?" I don't know...come to a therapist because I am looking for an answer to the exact question I asked??
Load More Replies...HELP. YES I do IN FACT already know what's wrong, right down to the very core of the beginning of my existence. Please. Tell me what do I DO WITH IT 😭
Yeah, a lot of therapists don't want you as a patient if too self aware cause they can't teach you things, since you already have figured stuff out (or have been previously taught). Sometimes all a mental health client needs is a therapist that just listens.
Yes this is unfortunately so true! When I went to a psychiatrist first and told her my self diagnosis (I’m a medical student so I’ve actually done enough research about what’s wrong with me) she outright refused to accept it, didn’t take a proper patient history of mine (so many of my obvious symptoms were from my childhood), and kept giving me random diagnoses. Eventually I told her to refer me to a therapist and she said she’d recommend one and wrote a referral note for me to hand over to the therapist. She put it in an envelope and expected me to see the therapist the next day so she probably didn’t expect me to open it but I did and in it she has finally written down the diagnosis I told her all along. But she still never admitted it to my face.
Load More Replies...What therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists really want though is a Gina Linetti. (That one episode in B99 at a party)
😆 I've seriously had a therapist make a big deal about my being self-aware too.... seemed to be trying to get me to realize it and then doing nothing to help.
Funny comments aside, they are little sensors in your brain that bond with dopamine to give you that happy feeling. When your dopamine levels are low or the receptors damaged it can get real hard to feel good. Roughly.
Load More Replies...Yeah. Punting a head of lettuce at my manager in the middle of her telling me not to was, from all perspectives, glorious to behold.
This reminds me of a funny sign from a grocery store I saw on BP: ‘please don’t throw cabbages at our staff’. But if you have to, you have to! 😊
Load More Replies...My decisions fall into three categories: thoughtful, chaotic, and (the default) “character building.”
So we wanted to know if they had any parting thoughts on mental health memes and anything in between. “The only thing I’d like to add is to just say, genuinely, thank you. Thank you to everybody, who follows, likes, supports and just interacts with PTSD.eezenuts in any way. It’s so fun for me to run this page and I’m so humbled that people like it and am grateful to any and everyone who allows me to do this.”
Does anyone else wonder if a therapist will need therapy one day?
Similar to my response to, "How's it going?" It goes, and that's all you can really ask for.
Load More Replies...That's me. Takes a minute to remember what happened in the past week. I think my memory doesn't organize by time. It's hard for me to remember when things happened. I remember what happened, but not when it happened.
People's memories are based on emotion, the stronger the emotion, the clearer the memory
Load More Replies...I kinda just make sounds when people ask me how my weekend was 'cause I don't frickin' know.
Thou shalt expect anything that can go wrong, going wrong.
Load More Replies...Yeah, that really hit me, when my parents died recently. No more safety net. Yeah. I'm 54.
Both. This is entirely dependent on the situation for me, although I tend to see numerous possibilities in most situations!
“If you like the page, or even if you hate it, and would like to check out my merch, you can find it online.” They also recommend getting in touch if you would want to contribute something. “I’m also always taking merch ideas and design suggestions so if you have any, I’d love to hear them- just hop in the dm’s!”
I don't think that there's anything that only one gender likes. Also who is joe rogan and why are you forced to talk about him? Is it like a sort of Godwin's law type thing?
If you only had access to the Internet, you could Google him.
Load More Replies...My rule is that if only rich white men over the age of 60 like something, then there's probably something wrong with it. But you have to have more than just one of those four factors, there are some good people who are each of those things, but I can't imagine a good person who's all four of them. And if I'm unlucky enough to live that long, I'll eventually be three of them, but there's very little chance of me ever being rich.
The only thing I've ever liked about Joe Rogan is he was in NewRadio.
*‘Shut up’* I snarl as I aggressively chew Pringles and mop my envious tears in front of my latest trashy romance novel.
That is one of the most aggressively random yet accurate comments I’ve seen today (just replace that with my weird Hazbin Hotel spotify playlists, sushi and magic/dystopia/crime books and it’s me)
Load More Replies...Good to know I've hit at least ONE marker in life!- I'm 44, and I've been addicted to Asian Dramas for YEARS! (In fact more like decades so I may have been IN FRONT of the curve!
Oooof. I feel this, but now I'm 3 years sober. It's possible to turn it around even if takes a decade. Do it for yourself and everyone around you.
Even though life IS plastic. It is NOT fantastic. Don't touch my hair! Don't touch me anywhere!
This is my secret...until I unsecret it by making people laugh about something /really/ dark before they catch themselves.
My favorite trick is to whiplash them between genuinely funny and personal-darkly funny and back again so that they laugh, pause, laugh nervously. My BEST friends are the ones that just outright say some version of "That was funny and then it wasn't and now I don't know how to react."
Load More Replies...I think that all comedians struggled with depression at least once in their lives.
Also, it isn’t unusual that comedians take their lives. I read somewhere that people like Robin Williams worked so hard at making other people feel glad because they themselves knew what it’s like to be depressed, and they didn’t want others to feel sad.
Load More Replies...🎶suffocation! No breathing! Don't give a f*ck if I cut my arm bleeding!🎶
Load More Replies...Being affected by small inconveniences is a trait of autism too. I wonder how many individuals with autism like emo.
“I happened to listen to that song, every other song by that artist and now have a full understanding of their life.” OKAY THAT IS MY IDEAL PERSON
I actually asked a therapist to do this and they refused, so I got a new therapist. If somebody can’t be bothered to do something that tiny, that takes a few minutes, they don’t really prioritize understanding their patient, so go find someone else who does.
Yeah, it's depressingly common for alleged therapists to just want to FEEL like they help people for a living, without actually DOING any of the work. Just spouting s**t out of a textbook and calling it a day. Even a decent mechanic does more diagnostic work than some therapists. I mean, christ, a patient giving you music like that is genuinely useful anyway, like them going "here's a rorschach test that made me feel a particular way, very strongly."
Load More Replies...When you send song or lyrics to friends cause that's exactly how you feel and they say that's an ok song whatever
Don't .. don't even try to understand me. I have one cousin who keeps sending me her favourite European metal songs, just because I told her I like some songs from a select few European metal bands. In my playlist, you'll be flying on a bird through a forest, then feeling like a queen sitting atop of money rapping how men crave you and women hate you, and then vibing to a melody with a man singing about being betrayed by his ex wife, and then imagining splashing through a river at a night under a bright moon and starry sky. The only thing you're really going to understand me is my taste in music, eventually.
Me who listens to funny meme songs, relaxing music, 80s music and AC/DC & Sabaton. My psyche is all over the place.
I have this problem without being tipsy... should I try getting tipsy to see if I can reverse this???
That's good, it's a bad idea to shear when drunk anyway, you could hurt the sheep.
Load More Replies...i overshare to anyone say i pick my nose don't blame me please
yeah, but he's standing in the path of it and URGHHH WHEN HE STEPS OUT IT'LL MESS IT UPPPPPPP im fine.
Load More Replies...Rarely have I related less to a phenomenon than I do to having a “praise kink” 😶
I just get self conscious and annoyed if I’m complimented or praised, like I have no idea what to do with that. If someone says really nice things about me, a part of me starts wondering what’s wrong with them, or whether I’m that good at hiding how messed up I really am.. ‘Praise kink’, wtf 😆
Load More Replies...Me: I critique pretty much anything I don't like (me for instance). Sometimes unreasonably harshly
You stand up but you have an iron deficiency: *warning lights and sirens*
That assault on women and creepers following women home exist and it's super fun and flirty.
Load More Replies...I've thinking of doing this if I ever get put on jury duty just because I know no one will not agree with me, anyways, and there will be a hung jury and everyone will be pissed off at me, and plan their own crime against me because we'll all miss dinner.
Being a juror is more like "he followed her here from effing IDAHO, broke down her sister's door and dragged her out; it doesn't matter that they're married." At least, that was my experience.
Load More Replies...It used to be impossible for me to serve on a jury. When they came to the question "Do you know the county prosecutor?", I would have to answer, "Yes, I've taught all his kids, we serve on a school board together, my wife is one of his wife's best friends, and my wife has served as the treasurer for some of his political campaigns." I was perfectly willing to serve, but the defense was entitled to this information.
I've never even been called for jury duty, nobody wants me:)
Load More Replies...come home after a long stressful day to play the most infuriating game ever so you want to come back to completely GRIEF the people you are playing with and potentially ruin their whole experience of the game. thats what i do
Are you talking about commenting on Bored Panda? Because that’s what it sounds like.
Load More Replies...Whenever they’re having to create new concepts or words because of you, you know you’ve accomplished something 😊
The stages of grief are bs. It’s just misery straight away and misery for longer until it’s hardly bearable
Looked it up, it's actually a portable TMS device. TMS uses electrical currents to essentially "rewire" a person's brain. Very cool. TMS exists currently but you have to go into a doctors office frequently for it to work. The portable part is really neat.
Next thing we know is that'll become a fashion statement. Influencers will model them in different colors and styles. Unfortunately for men, our version comes in black or camo; no flashing lights or feathers like women's...
If I position my camera just right, they won't see me wearing this in my next virtual meeting.
The way my mum taught me to spell necessary was “one collar two shoes” (one c two s’s)
I was taught "coffee, two sugars" and I've been drinking my coffee that way ever since
Load More Replies...The necessity of my ridiculously horrible (yet ironically hilarious) life circumstances, become way less desirable to myself and others, when I'm hangry, exhausted, and have to listen to someone else's awful music.... There! I included every word aside from sexy!
I love the meme about going on a stupid walk for stupid mental health. Cute and accurate.
It's one of those things that can seem so challenging to do, but once you do... Well it's still hard to repeat even though you know it makes you feel a teeny bit better for a few minutes.
for example un brushed hair in ma face, moody asss bich for de rest of da day
"Serve" is slang in the US (among Black and gay people, especially, according to Google) to mean that someone is wearing an attractive outfit. It can be extended that someone is "serving looks."
Load More Replies...I think there are themed strip clubs for what you're looking for dear... also,I've met many men and women in uniforms that were hot, bc they were also good people! Police, firefighters, garbage collectors, veterinarians, etc! The uniform serves them, their services serve you!
