Nowadays, memes have become an essential part of the internet culture. They cover nearly every possible aspect of life, as people use them to express everything from humor, to sadness, and beyond, which is what makes them so relatable; often to the point you might even feel personally attacked.
One place you’re bound to find such memes is the private Facebook group titled ‘I feel personally attacked by this relatable content, damn’. If the expressive title is not clear enough, the description emphasizes that “If you do not ‘feel personally attacked’ by the content you are about to post then it is not relatable content, damn!”, making sure that every post shared in the group will make at least some people go “been there, done that”.
Today, we have gathered some of the group’s best memes for you to browse, so wait no longer and scroll down to see if the situations depicted in them are something you can relate to.
In order to delve deeper into why we enjoy relatable content, Bored Panda got in touch with a former clinical psychologist, Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D, who was kind enough to answer some of our questions. You will find his thoughts in the text below.
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It could be like an Instacart shopper. "Your requested appointment day of Wednesday the 19th is not available. Would you like to substitute Thursday the 20th at 3:00 pm or Friday the 20th at 11:00 am?"
Ok, reading this comment section, forget the app,, we need to set up a BP extrovert/introvert buddy system. Who's in?
Seriously I am so in!! I can call anywhere and make any appointment, change your mobile provider, even call your employer and tell them you won't be in today...God help me if I need to do any of said calls for myself. You'd think English was my 8th language, I'd had a partial lobotomy and I couldn't remember my DOB and phone number for the life of me!! Placing an Ativan (or 3) under my tongue as I type.
Load More Replies...Half the reason my husband married me was so I would make the phone calls for him. I tell him he could at least chase me around a desk between calls /jk
Omg this is no s**it. My daughter has medicated anxiety disorder and even with her meds I had to be emotional support while she called her bank's customer service telephone line. Hyperventilating and tears were involved. I don't get it.
I offered to make the call and pretend to be her. To her credit, she declined the offer saying "I need to learn to do this for myself."
Load More Replies...This is why I love my stepsister. She has zero problems telling our server I didn’t order my potatoes that way.
But there use to be a time when a link was like www.mywebsite.com/contactus. Now its www.mywebsite.com/a/tg/89776hhbf/jhfjkhowhfhlkfhlsdhflhopiwhfhwfsah/con763thhlhgactkhjflhflhdus
Me: "I can't find my phone. Let met use your phone to call it to locate it." 10 seconds later: "Hey, I have a call from you"
When I have to do something on the smartphone while speaking, I ALWAYS anounce it and apologize just in case the communication would be interrumpted. I still don't know entirely how my smartphone works.
Me at the office scanner, clicking "Send by email"; Outlook app on phone buzz, OH GEE WHO COULD THAT BE?
Seriously, how else do you get a link from your computer to your phone?
Use Firefox, (on each device, phone and computer), it has a Send/share link to device..." feature
Load More Replies...I remember a lot of pointless stuff from decades ago, but I've got no problem forgetting I'll be getting a text from myself between the time I press "send" and the time it pops up.
The first part is awesome. I always say that dreams are films our mind shows us while our brain relaxes. Most of mine are horror as well, I don't mind that.
That’s lucky, I hate my nightmares, I dreamt I watched one of my cats die last night.
Load More Replies...One time I scared the s**t out of myself while I was writing a horror novel
My brain seems to have malfunctioned a few years back. I get by what all accounts should be nightmares, but there's no fear. Like last night I dreamt a guy was stalking me and trying to kill me with a gun and I was holed up in a bathroom trying to quietly call the police but it was great! I woke up after he busted the door down with the feeling of "oh cool that was interesting", and just rolled over and went back to sleep xD
Started back in 2020, the private Facebook group has already amassed over 170k members, sharing memes and other relatable content daily. Considering that roughly 62% of the global population nowadays—a number that grew from 6% in the year 2000—are internet users, there ought to be people who can imagine themselves in, or have actually been in, situations the group’s content covers.
Similarly to liking people who are similar to us, we tend to enjoy content we can relate to as well. Life consultant for personal, professional, and corporate consultations, formally retired from clinical psychology, Dr. Leon Seltzer explained why that is: “If a person can't personally relate to a subject being written or talked about—or if an activity is one they know little about and have never shown any interest in—they'll feel alienated from it. It will leave them disappointed and disengaged. On the contrary, if they relate positively to some topic, if it feels vital or exciting to them, they'll be motivated to get involved in it, to take it on.”
And either crazy run-on sentences with an insane number of commas, the kind that turns into a full paragraph, even though it is all the same thought, or a series of short declarative sentences that you send one sentence per, instead of typing out the full thought and then hitting send. That happens.
Haha, my teacher once wanted me to read out loud what I wrote in an exam. It was a sentence that was 1 1/2 pages long, including a lot of commas. (To everyones surprise, including me, it totally made sense)
Load More Replies...Ok. I thought I was the only one. You have to have the parenthesis otherwise you won't get the origin story of the sentence!
martymcmatrix, who read the letter while the children were playing with the crabs would certainly - under other circumstances - have taken the crook by the collar and handed it over to the lansquenets who were standing at his door, but since in the mood of the mind even this step was still capable of an indifferent interpretation and he had fully convinced himself that nothing in the world could save him from the bargain in which he was involved and so he looked the fellow with a sad look in his well known face, asked him where he lived and summoned him in a few hours again to himself where he would open to him - in relation to his master - his decision.
Pro tip: if it involves cooking on the stove, use the instructions as a spoon holder. Keeps your counter clean and the instructions nearby
Bonus points if you ripped the packet in half right across the instructions!
It's usually how long to microwave it. And I just read it 30 seconds ago
When it comes to liking similar people, professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Albright College, Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D., pointed out that it is important to distinguish actually having a lot in common (known as actual similarity) and believing to have a lot in common (perceived similarity).
In an article for Psychology Today, Dr. Seidman suggested that the less information we have about a person, the more actual similarity affects us liking them. For example, learning that a person has similar interests as you do boosts liking them as you have nothing else to base your impression on without having actually met them.
7-9? .....sign me up. I'm on the 2hr then pee another 1hr and think I heard something another 2hr and pee again and then 1hr of fitful sleep that I eventually throw my hands up in the air and just decide to go make coffee plan.
Load More Replies...That's a great theory right up until you go to sleep and don't wake up.
"to sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub for in that sleep of death who knows what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. There's the respect that makes calamity of such long life.... Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action." (Don't worry for me; that's Hamlet.)
I am currently listening to music at the same time as playing a game at the same time as scrolling bored panda
Load More Replies...I suffer with anxiety and depression. My partner has ME. I’m all about having the TV on silent, usually with some sort of sport on, my music playing, usually some blues, rock or similar, I’ll be drawing or messing about with images on my iPad even reading a book.. I love being overstimulated by stuff, the brighter, louder and more distracting the better. I can switch between things and my mind doesn’t get a chance to dig a hole. Here’s the rub, my partner hates overstimulation, it exhausts her, she needs silence or very close to silence to function during a normal day, it all becomes a blur that her brain can’t decipher if there are too many inputs. We are a match made in heaven! 😂 PS silence wins normally, why would I drive her nuts if I can manage my thought processes for a bit?
I'm first general internet user. I can do multiple things at once & pay attention to all because I used to have multiple roleplaying websites going with different characters, and multiple chat windows open with separate conversations. I literally can no longer do one thing at a time.
I just hope they won't ask me a question and it turns out I never listened.
Load More Replies...I tell my hairdressers straight up I'm there to disassociate from the world so they know I'm not wanting a convo. They've all been cool about it and leave me be.
Right? Clip clip the scissors go snip. Spare my ear and button your lip.
I'm an introverted stylist at a top salon. I try so hard not to talk a lot, but most of my clients brag about what they have and start grilling me on random things. All I say is "today is about YOU, so tell me more about blah blah blah." It works most of the time because people just love to talk about themselves. I picked the wrong profession. Of something gets awkward, I have to basically deal with it as some services take HOURS. I go home and tremble myself to sleep a lot.
If you love the actual hair styling part, look into opening up a mobile service where you offer a "no talk" experience. Trust me, there's plenty of demand for it. Maybe speak to your local business advice service. I don't know where you're from but my council offers it for free, so it's worth looking into. Just see what your options are because trembling yourself to sleep, all that stress and anxiety, it's not good for you <3
Load More Replies...I am British and live in Germany. Even though I'm fluent in German, I have huge trouble trying to understand them at the hairdresser because a) I can't lip-read, b) blow drying, c) I'm never sure if they're speaking to me or their colleague, or another customer. My old hairdresser once said (directly, as usual for a German) "You really don't like going to the hairdresser, do you?" and I (testing my Germanness) said "No. I hate it." I'm glad I live somewhere where I can be honest, at least, and no one takes offence!
I don't have my stylist blow dry anymore because I can NEVER get it to look that good again. Saves me a lot of frustration.
I think it's a ploy to get you to come in more often.
Load More Replies...I have told them before that they don't need to make conversation with me, I would rather close my eyes and relax, and I won't get mad if my hair isn't what I pictured, it grows fast and I'm going to tip you the same amount of 20% so just chill with me cuz it's just hair. They usually don't believe me the first time.
Based on previous research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Gwendolyn Seidman, Ph.D., suggested that there are several reasons similarity increases liking. For instance, meeting people with similar views or virtues makes us more confident about those views or virtues. Moreover, having something in common with others might make us think positively about them, in a way making us feel more positive about ourselves.
Absolutely... because we'll KNOW that one time we don't do it, the bank will not have received that payment! I just know it!
I used to do it for all payments but not anymore for all payments. Only some I do screen shots. Don't ask me which ones and why because I have no system to it. It just goes how I feel at that moment I guess.
Must always be prepared. Because it happened before, so i refuse to let it happen again.
As a professional overthinker this meme is so accurate. I feel personally attacked.
Aye, we're just probably tired. Or got too much going on it's hard to concentrate.
Load More Replies...One tactic I think might help with dealing with specifically, is reminding yourself that it's usually stuff the other person is dealing with when their attitude is different. Yes there's a chance it COULD be you, but most people are too self-absorbed with their OWN problems to commit that much energy into focusing on you as a problem.
Or the opposite.. overanalyzing whether something you said to someone days ago was off
This morning my class teacher almost threw a clipboard at me and I sort of overanalyzed it and spoilt my mood for the whole day. I can’t even blame her for being upset with me because I was constantly reminding her to give me back the clipboard but I still decided to overthink it
Extra points for trying to do it one handed while lifting up baby with the other
And once you get the hang of it, they learn how to twist and squirm like they are possessed while you're doing it. Good times.
Load More Replies...Liking those who are similar to us is also related to the self-expansion theory, which states that people benefit from spending time with others by gaining knowledge and experiences. “Even though a dissimilar person would be more likely to actually provide new knowledge and experiences, research has shown that people are more likely to see self-expansion opportunities when interacting with someone who is similar, rather than dissimilar, to them,” Dr. Seidman pointed out.
Sounds about right. Now bring out the scissors and cut the ropes, one at a time.
i heard the "weeeeee", like lucas the spider skating in the sink :D
I'm familiar with this. Find a good song, start having a kitchen dance party, cleaning forgotten.
My husband to do any chore. Half hour later he is ready and I'm done.
I love my playlists, they were created to scratch out the searching part. (Cleaning, shopping, cooking, relaxing 1 [low stresslevel] to 4 [speak-to-me-and-loose-a-limp-stresslevel], cooking with friends and before/after work)
You beat me to it. I came to post that I have way too many playlists titled for the activity I just know they are perfect for. 🤣
Load More Replies...That's why I always clean with headphones on, so the vacuum doesn't matter.. also don't need to carry the phone around as long as it's within bluetooth range 😀
Load More Replies...Dr. Leon Seltzer also emphasized to Bored Panda that people benefit from learning from those around them. “Growing one's interests and developing new skill sets is experienced by most people as rewarding. Biochemically, what's fresh and novel enables them to secrete dopamine, and that's an unconscious incentive to engage in what before was unprecedented for them.”
“To put it simply, we're made that way,” he added. “Despite our capitalistic, competitive, dog-eat-dog culture, most people would (if only secretly) prefer to cooperate rather than compete. Liking to work together and play together are in our DNA. So playing Monopoly or Uno will be more fun and self-affirming than, say, playing Solitaire.”
Oh mine insults me and only me constantly. And it tells me to be like other people, or stay s**t. Is that healthy?
Mine does that, too, and sometimes it repeats things others told me in their voice or gets creative and makes new things in their voice and phrasing.
Load More Replies...anyone name the little voice in their head? My lil dude's name is Lux. He's mean:(
Yes you say I'm nice but WHAT if I stop all the efforts to make you think that and you see the REAL me, would you still like me??
At least that makes it easy to keep your worst enemy close.
Load More Replies...Darling, beautiful human. You are so wonderful in so many ways. I’ve read war history for thirty years. If you are functioning, if you want to love, if you want to learn, you are going to be ok. If you have a condition, seek help if you can (I did). In the words of Tom Waits, “hold on”. These words kept me going until tomorrow. And tomorrow. And tomorrow. ❤️
I know that was not directed to me, but i will write this on a card and keep it forever in my pockets as if it was written for me 🥲❤️🩹
Load More Replies...I just assume that i'm s**t, that everyone else thinks that i'm s**t, and well, we'll all just have to make the best of it.
I saw a mosquito sitting on my arm helping itself while my hands were full, so I ate it. Got my blood back as a bonus!
And maybe a dash of malaria, a touch of dengue fever and a tiny speck of west nile virus. All good for the immune system.
Load More Replies...Well, I heard they make cutlets out of mosquitoes in some African countries. There are many mosquitoes there I guess.
Slightly off topic but my dog tried to eat an ant the other day. While he succeeded in getting it in his mouth he didn't swallow because before dieing, the ant bit the inside of his lip and was just hanging there. Didn't hurt my pup or bother him but there it it was hanging as if to warn the other acts to run
If I am fast enough, I can squish the mossie before she has a chance to enjoy the blood she just stole.
Here's today's cheerful tidbit about climate change: as the planet gets warmer, disease-carrying mosquitos will move further north, bringing all their lovely diseases like zika, West Nile, dengue fever, malaria....
I sure have googled this. I don't even care if you judge the little bitches deserve it.
In addition to gaining knowledge from people around us, we receive an abundance of information from the digital world as well. It might not always be memes, but internet content has arguably enabled us to learn and share more, according to Pew Research Center’s data.
It revealed that in 2014, the vast majority (87%) of internet users in the US agreed that it has improved their ability to learn new things. Back then it was estimated that by 2015, Americans would consume 1.7 trillion hours of traditional and digital media—a projection based on the 5% annual growth in the amount of information and media in people’s lives between the years of 2008 and 2013. “That is an average of 15.5 hours of media per person per day of 30 different kinds of media in video, print, audio, and gaming formats,” the report reads in part.
Thank god, I felt alone being happier when leaving than when arriving...
Load More Replies...My google search history is so random because I google the randomest things. Like "sagebrush" "high school musical characters" "Do elephants eat bananas"
Don't leave us hanging about the elephants and bananas!
Load More Replies...I thought that was just a senior moment. My problem is that I turn on the screen and there are messages that pop up and distract. I have to force myself to ignore all those notifications.
pets are children! spoil them ✅️ give them treats and toys ✅️ potty train them ✅️ tell them no when they do something bad ✅️ loving them ✅️
Cats are way better than kids! Annual day care cost for babies and young children can be over $10,000 per year. Cats, on the other hand, ZERO $$$! Purring has been shown to induce relaxation and sleep in people. Your kids favorite rap music vibrating through your bedroom wall has the opposite effect!
Babies dispose of waste in a comparatively chaotic manner. Cats can be trained.
Whoever develops a training system for babies that involves a litterbox will make a billion.
Load More Replies...Considering how much of online content is memes, it is arguably safe to say that we might learn a thing or two from them. Not only learn, but use them to share information as well. Covering ‘The surprising power of internet memes’, BBC pointed out that they are more than puns hidden in a humorous combination of texts and visuals; they can also be tools for self-expression, connection, social influence and even political subversion.
For real that happend to me while playing Fortnite
Load More Replies...As my friend drove home having dropped off her final car payment, a guy ran the light and broadsided her. Totaled the car.
Took car to mechanic. Get it back & it's making a new noise. Mechanic claims to not know what is causing the new noise.
"do you remember-" no susan i dont now shut up /s
Load More Replies...See item above -- "you should hear the lil voice in my head" -- no need for someone else to remind me!
Aw god that’s me to day. Opened up a whole new can of worms, now I feel like sh…t.
and you stew over it for days, and just when that one passes, bang another one pops up. or the time you called someone when you were drunk, remember that one?
I have one of these...I did it when I was 24 and I'm 51 now and it still randomly haunts me
☝️this person is going places. Probably out of bed to get the package at their front door and then back to bed.
Load More Replies...This. That dopamine rush of buying something you can't afford after convincing yourself that you can make it fit your budget even though you don't even need it is exquisite.
You just eloquently described me to a T. Don't you think the credit card companies could give us a break and forget to keep track of everything we buy? I know I lose track! Everyday coming home from work to find packages on my porch is like Christmas because I've forgotten what I ordered but know I'm going to like it!
Load More Replies...But think of the benefits, you then have an excuse to return the items the next day, and get out of bed.
I'd suggest rotting on the couch. It's an accomplishing feel since you're not wallowing in bed.
If memes are something you enjoy, Bored Panda has an endless supply of them, covering nearly every topic imaginable. There are memes about work, animals, marriage; there are also wholesome memes, hilarious ones, even mental-health-related memes, so choose wisely and enjoy browsing the colorful world of internet content.
Don't worry guys, the therapist is just stealing your joke to use later with their friends. It was that good.
However, I don't know if it's such a good thing if you make a psychiatrist laugh hysterically at your joke. I have experienced this too. I have some strange energy and I get people out of their work roles and reveal their true selves.
Me: That was a joke! Therapist: Jokes are funny. Me: Well I laughed! Therapist: Yes but you also laughed at a "rude pattern" you saw on the chessboard!
I always get a strange sense of satisfaction whenever I manage to make my therapist laugh. Especially when it's a joke I'm testing for my imaginary stand-up set.
The funniest is when she'll do both. Like "that was so gosh darn hilarious but also I'm really concerned"
When people ask me if I can break a $20, I always reply, "I have a wife and two teenage daughters. I haven't seen a $20 bill in a decade."
The US federal minimum wage, $7.25/hr, hasn’t been changed since *checks internet* 2009. Adjusted for inflation since then, it would be $10.29/hr in 2023.
I have three dollars and I feel compelled to spend it on useless c**p.
Never understood this system, maybe its due to generation gap. but who besides the like top10% of people afford to save half a years wages untouched.
This was a standard set before inflation got so extremely out of hand, when compared to income rates.
Just saw Suzie orman say this. I laughed and then got angry then became sad in a matter of a few seconds. So i just flipped her off and told her to go have a toss and all back to normal.
Load More Replies...This is the only positive thing being hypermobile. It happens, it hurrs a little, after a short time all is normal again.
That's what I thought until it finally rolled too far, broke the 5th metatarsal and tore the ligament. My second opinion surgeon said yeah, that much movement isn't normal and isn't a good thing. I have arthritis in it and wear a soft brace but it doesn't roll anymore. Get that fixed before you spend 2 years having surgeries and physical therapy!
Load More Replies...Lurching around like Frankenstein's monster cause my ankle did that, left knee took the damage, didn't want to bend for 2 weeks, right shoulder still achy. This has to happen at least once a year, preferably when I'm late for something that I actually dressed up for, so I arrive leaking blood. Fun days
That is really my right ankle - the nerve is dead and the muscles becoming fondue!
Always the solution .. it's got water in it anyways, right?
Load More Replies...Bear me too "Hordor" + "anticus" makes it even better. (Like, beat me to it + 1)
Load More Replies...My grandma has SOS button on her brick phone that sends “help” text to whole family, one day it activated and everyone tried to call her, text her.. no answer. Mum jumped in the car to drive there, all relatives stopped outside grandma’s at the same time with tyres screeching. Grandma was happily gardening outside, surprised everyone decided to visit. She pressed it by mistake of course and had no idea.
She may have done this before. I'm guessing after the 7th "help" for shopping you stop worrying as much.
Load More Replies...It's just a meme to edit in Buscemi's face on people and things.
Load More Replies...I have one kid. Unsure how two could even fit in more words but I feel like they would be up for the challenge
Load More Replies...During the Corona, my daughter and my mil,,, constantly, all day.
By not allowing me to have a puppy I had spare time to be depressed and read. I learned about genetics and vowed to never pass on the s**t show genes my parents gave me. So by not letting me have a puppy she actually helped the world a tiny bit.
The empire (me) strikes back (makes pew pew pew noises like laura dern)
Me as a father who takes care of all the puppies and kids: so about those grandkids?
When someone starts to say something but decides not to. Tell me!! I hate that!
What kind of person even does this?
Load More Replies...I so much hate this. Why tell me that you'll tell me later or tomorrow?
why do people think i'll forget if you wait 24 hours? i'll be arguably worse and more needy bro TELL ME
I tell someone to ask me later, and I forget within minutes. I ask someone to tell me later, and I remember it for at least a decade.
Had a boss ask me to stay after work cause they wanted to talk to me. Cue Dread Panic setting in.. Then adding, don't worry its good news. MADE MY DAY!
Our new big boss was inviting people to meet with him and HR, he just wanted to get a feel for how things are going etc - you gotta let people know that in the invite!
Load More Replies...My friend at school in one of her postcards: Oh, and when the summer holidays are over, I need to have a serious talk with you!! " Six weeks ruined. It was something completely unimportant.
8yr old. Googling. I would have needed the Dewey decimal system to find that out when I was 8. Consequently, I would have come to the conclusion that I still need my parents.
Yes! Remember doing research for term papers at the library and writing down sources on index cards? Oh, and using encyclopedias? Those were good times ☺️
Load More Replies...Me now. I’m just trying to plot out ways I can run away from everything but it’s just a daydream fantasy now. Kind of makes me feel better about my current problems
I was actively encouraging my mom to go out to get groceries or I didn't care what she did. I just revelled in the silence of being the only one in our apartment for the too little time it lasted.
I highly recommend acknowledging the triggers but working to leave them be, giving them less and less analysis (the metaphor is 'seeing through the triggers'). It has helped me to be less focused on the triggers and bounce back to continuing to do things faster than if I got caught in dwelling on the triggers. Can work for some people, but I am sure not for all.
I agree That where the fun begins May many insights grace your Heart mind
In Chinese, the standard greeting is not "how are you?", but "did you eat?".
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe it’s nì chī ma?
Load More Replies...Me when anyone is hungry including pack of stray cats that waits for me outside of my building.
Everyone deserves 3 full meals a day, plus snacks. You may not have the best relationship with yourself, but I promise that it will get better if you give your body the nutrition it needs <3 (always stay hydrated too)
I can barely afford 1 meal a day and have lost 50kg in just 6 months.
Load More Replies...This is me. I give my friends and neighbors treats and meals all of the time. Food is my love language.
I do this every morning! The snooze is my best friend. And then you get ready in a mad dash, race out the door, then sit at your job for 8-9 hrs. Why?
For a society where everything is supposed to be automated by machines, it sure loves to continue exploiting the people it (supposedly) relies on and serves.
Happened just this past Sunday, I found Friday nights beer in the freezer that I popped in for a quick chill
I have done this to at least 5 refrigerators in the last 2 years.
So many exploded soda stains, my ice cubs still come out carbonated 😅
I once answered a call at work. My boss's housekeeper was on the line. Before the family left for their overseas vacation they had a party. The teens had popped a 24 pack of Orange crush, grape crush, mountain dew and rootbeer in the freezer. I must say what she described for over that call sounded very colourful indeed. And I got the pleasure of passing along the news to the parents.
I have started to set a time on my phone because I hate cleaning the freezer!!!
& then my shopping list is completely off because I arrange it according to the layout so I can go in order.. & then I forget important s**t... it's the worst
I finally went to the new Winco several months ago and it is laid out exactly like the one I used to go to over a decade ago in another state. So now I shop there almost exclusively. Grocery shopping used to be my happy place before they decided to arrange and rearrange things to encourage rage buying rather than arrange things based on logic. I mean obviously none of its fun with the grocery inflation but Winco also has the lowest prices so it's win win for me.
I have two walmarts within 5 miles of my house and both are completely different
3 Lidls within 1 mile of my house, all of them different :D
Load More Replies...I was at a different Walmart today and almost walked into the men's restroom 😳
I had similar experience with Lidl. One day we went to get something from newly opened store in my parents' town and i thought i was going crazy. Not a single thing was in their usual place, but in a way that weirded me out and i couldn't tell why. Until i realized that the layout and product placement was exactly the same as in other stores, only it was mirrored. And to this day i keep remembering it and thinking "WHY?!!!!"
They rearrange the store "because we want you to see more things.". Dangnabit! I just want to find the milk and cereal, pay and leave... I don't care to take the three hour scenic tour of the store.
This is why I have 5 jars of peanut butter
Load More Replies...My spirit animal is a raccoon: I stay up all night eating junk and embrace the dark circles around my eyes.
Life would be easier in the psych ward? Take it from me, it really wouldnt.
Load More Replies...Nowadays you don't get involuntarily committed unless you're a serious danger to yourself or others. I was quite surprised how strong your problems have to be before they commit you involuntarily, it's so different from the idea that society has, which seems to be mostly based on how it was decades ago. I don't know about other countries, but in the Netherlands, when you hear voices, not only do you usually not get committed involuntarily, a lot of those people don't get ANY treatment for it at all: psychologists only recommend treatment for it when the voices tell you to do evil/dangerous things or when the voices makes you stressed out, otherwise they say you don't even need any sort of treatment. I was so surprised about that.
I told someone the truth, realized how fûcked up I was, and voluntarily committed myself.
btw--and i'm saying this bc *I* didn't know until my therapist pointed it out--this is self-harm. this is a form of self-harm.
Load More Replies...But it doesn't matter because no one is really listening anyway so you just kind of fade out your voice and hope no one notices it just went quiet. Just me? Oh well
Not just you at all. I sometimes just say something completely random and unrelated just to see if anyone was paying attention. The number of times people notice is very low.
Load More Replies...Are we all secretly weird and awkward? I know I am!! However, it's not so much a secret. I think I've ruined some great potential friendships by being weird and saying awkward things.
ahhh me the other day. Leaving for the airport. BF: "you dont need that charger?" me "no" BF drops me at airport. Me: "shiiit i forgot my charger" I now have a 40 euro spare charger. (that would have cost me 5 euro in a normal shop)
Four statements in that interaction, and three of them are negative. Could be part of the reason a positive action didn't occur. But maybe not.
that one friend/relative who always gets angry when you check if they haven't forgotten something but actually forgot something the one time you didn't.
Lol, sleep schedule, no such thing. I'm using it as a random number generator.
we saw a plastic bag on the highway the other day just rolling along between cars and I said it was me in that katy perry song.
I've always felt like she got the idea from the movie American Beauty. I know she isn't the first one to use that imagery, but not sure where she got the idea though.
I think probably everyone has actually seen a stray plastic bag though. So maybe she just saw one.
Load More Replies...For me it’s my nose itching the millisecond my hands are full, or I’m up to my elbows in the water and suds. Every. Damn. Time.
Or when you’re doing pt in school and a nerve in your shoulder suddenly gives out a signal or when your schoolbag is so heavy that it’s at its maximum capacity and you’re wearing it on your back
contrary to popular belief, talking to yourself does not make you insane no. Most people talk to themselves. It's pretty normal. If you are someone who has to talk things out aloud in order to process them there's even a term it's called 'external processing' and it's just a regular variation in humans.
Load More Replies...Talking to yourself is actually a sign of intelligence. You are reasoning out loud. I often talk to myself about whatever because I do better learning and reasoning, figuring things out when I say it and hear it. Parents are always asking who I'm talking to. I always say myself because I need to have an intelligent conversation!
I have now started talking to myself in public , people notice and look at me weird, I'm not even sure I care anymore.
Are you ok? If you need to talk I’m always here :)
Load More Replies...this is unhealthy y'all need to not think this is ok. like. people have lives. you're not the centre of the universe.
You're missing the point, SkekVi. This whole forum is unhealthy and since I and a lot of others are unhealthy, it is relatable. We're not condoning this, we are just acknowledging how flawed we are.
Load More Replies...That coping technique has never worked for me, no matter how much the therapist pushed it.
Doesn’t work for me because my other inner voice is screaming ‘shut up, we’re busy here’
Load More Replies...It’s a distraction technique for times when your brain runs into overdrive. Much like square breathing (breath in for 4 count, hold breath for 4 count, breath out for 4 count, hold for 4 count, repeat and count how many times you go around the square), it tries to focus your mind on something that’ll bring it down from its high. It’s a basic form of meditation, you can alter it however you wish,, 5 colours you can see, 4 corners you can see, 3 sensations you are feeling, 2 smells, 1 sound you can hear. It’s all about slowing down.
Load More Replies...When the cat doesn't want to be petted and you move on to suicide plans...
Obviously it doesn't, it follows my 6 year old sister, it can't follow two people at once
Load More Replies...I've never known how big Burt was in real life. Now I do. Thanks again, banana.
Me at 64, mom please come to the doctor with me, I'm really frightened.
The you find the ransome note says "please just take them back! I'll pay you!"
Nice reference... Wish you were here. It would kind off work on me.
ok but can you imagine wearing those for like, 5 minutes and then when you peel it off the skin underneath is sweating and dented and red and your HAIR is FLAT
I cry then I apply eyeliner and think I don't look like I have cried so much.
I have ADHD and its the exact opposite. I'm like a Goldfish. I will forget that people exist when I don't see them everyday. I've lost many good friends because of this and I can never blame them. Hahaha. *help*
I’m planning on cutting people off, they don’t need to deal with any more problems
It's from the upcoming movie Challengers. It's an erotic tennis thriller (I can't believe that's an actual term)
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