50 Wholesome Memes And Posts That Remind Us The World Isn’t All Bad, As Shared In This Facebook Group
Whenever you step online, you come under a constant fire of negative content about racial injustice, climate change, election controversy, mass shootings, and the list goes on.
Consuming too much of it can lead to what mental health professionals call "media saturation overload," "doomscrolling," "headline anxiety," and "headline stress disorder."
Though there is no formally recognized disorder or diagnostic criteria, many psychologists are seeing patients suffering from news-related stress.
So let's try to offset that, shall we? There's a Facebook group called 'Wholesome memes' and its 127K members are focused on just that: innocent, feel-good stuff that puts a smile on your face instead of sucking the joy out of your heart. Join us and take a look at some of their most popular posts!
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It's refreshing to see these wholesome memes. The way that news is reported and consumed has changed significantly over the last few decades. Nowadays we can hardly avoid it and many of us even actively feel the need to seek it out.
According to Graham C. L. Davey, Ph.D., who is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK, the modern-day tone of the news is increasingly emotive. "It's increasingly visual and shocking, and its commentaries increasingly negative and fear-laden," he wrote in Psychology Today. "It's not surprising that there is also growing evidence that negative news can affect our mental health, notably in the form of increased anxiety, depression and acute stress reactions."
Notifications on our phones keep us in direct contact with world events regardless of what we’re doing. As Mark Deuze writes in his book Media Life, the modern world has become one in which the media are ubiquitous, pervasive and cannot be switched off, and this is also true of news, where immediate daily information about world events has become an accepted reality of everyday existence.
But a more significant impact of the digital age on news reporting, according to Professor Davey, has been the dramatic shift to visual imagery in news items, especially visual imagery contributed by the audience and garnered by journalists from social media.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROVE TO ANYONE WHY YOU'RE EXHAUSTED AND TIRED! I HOPE YOU CAN GET SOME REST AND FEEL BETTER SOON!!!!
Load More Replies..."You just don't understand what's it's like! Kids are so tiring, I only sleep 3 hours a night."...No, I understand exactly what it's like, because you won't shut up about it.
This. I used to hear friends whine that they wanted kids, now they whine because they have kids.
Load More Replies...I hope so too. I'm a young teenager and I've had one of the hardest weeks of my life. Most people have understood why, but one of my relatives didn't and acts like I'm fine because I'm young. Forgetting the fact that I haven't had a proper pair of shoes in a long time so my feet and ankles are messed up, I have back pain, neck pain, frequent headaches, wrist pain, etc. I've also had to deal with no AC in the middle of summer in a hot and humid area, traveling with a senior dog who is scared of fireworks and people were setting those off, I've spent days juggling dogs and family, and I'm in a loud environment and have been for days. Even just telling someone that you hope they get some rest and feel better without making you feel like you aren't allowed to be tired means so much.
You're allowed to be tired! I how you get some rest. 💙
Load More Replies...Thank you! I get so exhausted just living as I have several health issues all of which affect my energy levels.
I think it's important to justify it to yourself but not others. The reason being unexplainable tiredness can be a symptom of serious illness. If you know it's tiredness because of too much work, not enough sleep, etc that's fine. You *know* the likely cause. But if you're doing everything right and still tired... see a doctor (maybe more than one). I managed to get Ross River a few years back and didn't get all the symptoms but I got awful fatigue combined with aches and pains. Regular GP wrote it off as not exercising enough and being overweight. Specialist (for something entirely unrelated) twigged and asked for a test which proved it.
Load More Replies...I had a heart attack late Tuesday night. After the pain and the fear and the stent and the medication, I am so relieved to have an excuse to not work, and not feel badly about relaxing for several days.
It's true. Although admittedly I have never been more tired as with a kid and I have had no idea how tired one would become with a baby
I'm exhausted everyday after work... mostly from having to talk to people all day, partly because I'm on my feet for 8 hours
Even as a parent myself, I dislike people thinking you can only be exhausted if you’re a parent.
Thank you from all of us who are tired without it showing on the outside. ❤️
I have been disabled by Chronic Fatigue/ME (among other things) for over 20 years now. I cannot count the number of people who have actually said to me, “You’re so lucky you don’t have to work!”. Because I’m enjoying being sick and exhausted for more than 2 decades. Yeah. Woo hoo.
Drop the “anchor “ without any guilt and relax. Sometimes this crazy world can be an exhausting place.
My beloved fellow pandas, I hope you can get the rest you need. It doesn't matter why you are physically, mentally or emotionally tired. Please take care. I recently found the book "How to Keep House While Drowning" and I have rarely read a book so understanding of being tired, as well as practical thoughts about how to continue living activities (you know, like eating food and having cleanish clothing) while tired. I highly recommend it.
Same thing can be said with anyone struggling with anything. It’s not a competition, and one person struggling with more doesn’t invalidate those struggling but with less.
Thank you! I that everyone takes the rest they need when they need it.
Edit: I HOPE that everyone takes the rest that they need when they need it.
Load More Replies...Your cat has that, "office b***h who judges everyone" vibe.
"User-generated images of important world events are now regularly captured on the smartphones of those close to or even directly involved in these events, and this new form of 'news reality' began to appear during the Asian tsunami, the 7/7 London underground bombings, and the Boston marathon bombings, developments that effectively allowed the audience to witness such events in what was virtually real-time," the psychologist explained.
Such user-generated images permit news broadcasters to present ever more dramatic and shocking images that were either not available or not permissible in earlier times.
For example, in news coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, images were made available worldwide of one of the gunmen shooting a policeman at point blank range.
Flash forward two years and television news coverage of the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament did not hesitate to show graphic smartphone-captured images of the injured, the dying, and the dead
Very smart. I shall show my 3 year old this idea. Brilliant. I am 45 and wouldn't have thought of doing this
"The news audience is now effectively being transported to the site of an event by real-time graphic images so that those watching these images become directly connected to the distressing events that are happening and the affect these events generate," Davey explained. In a way, the media no longer reports from the scene but is part of the scene and action.
Not to mention all the articles and programmes about improbable dangers, such as being swallowed by a black hole. As Davey pointed out, they often give most credence to those supporting the Doomsday scenario, and significantly less exposure to the experts who critique them.
"Most people wouldn’t know what a black hole was even if it came straight up the toilet pan, dragged them screaming towards the singularity at the speed of light and ultimately spaghettified them. But the chances of that are very, very remote," the psychologist said.
In today's content, there is often a lack of distinction between news and comment, especially when news outlets are cynically attempting to broadcast their own heavily angled political views, and news-as-comment is just one step away from fake news.
Winning the political argument is all that matters, it’s not important whether the information you garner to support your argument is heavily angled or even sheer delusion. This is because, by our very nature, human beings cannot allow their ingrained political or ideological beliefs to be destroyed by "facts" because for many people those beliefs define them and are a central component of their identity.
So obviously, there's plenty of news that is sensationalized, emotionalized, and stuffed with speculative commentary. But at least the psychological impact on the mental health of consumers is becoming increasingly recognized too. And good thing we have such awesome sources to balance out the negativity.
Unlike my dog. ONE YEAR we let him unwrap a present. The next year he was UNBEARABLE in anticipation of opening his christmas present.
Sometimes. This cat must think you're a special human. He picked you and cats are rarely wrong about their humans being special.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, i will spam w if i have to because omg adorable
Please wait till it takes 3 minutes to get to your birthday. Here a hint I was as born right after ww2
Me at olive garden. Waiter: tell me when to stop. Me five days later: keep going
Note: this post originally had 147 images. It’s been shortened to the top 51 images based on user votes.
usually I hate collections of memes, but I laughed at a lot of these
These were cute and they made me happy and I forgot about my life for 30 minutes. :)
Oldies but goldies! Congratulations if you made it through the whole list
Load More Replies...Some of these didn't seem to match the title. An interesting collection, though
usually I hate collections of memes, but I laughed at a lot of these
These were cute and they made me happy and I forgot about my life for 30 minutes. :)
Oldies but goldies! Congratulations if you made it through the whole list
Load More Replies...Some of these didn't seem to match the title. An interesting collection, though