50 Memes For When There’s Nothing Left To Do But Laugh, Posted On The “Mad Sad Not Good” IG Page (New Pics)
Its intensity varies, but sadness is a normal human emotion that fills us in upsetting, painful, or disappointing situations.
Feeling blue doesn't necessarily mean you are doing something wrong. Rather, it helps us come to terms with the harsh side of reality and move on.
And the Instagram account 'Mad Sad Not Good' is trying to normalize it.
Using the universal language of memes, it shares relatable jokes about everyday struggles, fostering a sense of solidarity and understanding among its followers.
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To learn more about the things that we feel, we contacted London-based psychiatrist and author of 'You Are Not Meant To Be Happy. So Stop Trying,' Rafa Euba.
"Sadness is a natural emotion that we are meant to experience during certain periods in our lives," he told Bored Panda. "It is normally intermittent, like all our other emotions, and will come and go depending on what's happening at any given time."
"Sadness is more persistent during periods of adaptation to a loss when it will help us gradually reset our mind in response to that loss," the psychiatrist added. "The sadness we feel when we fail to achieve a certain goal, or that associated with unrequited love, may also help us re-evaluate our ambitions and lower our expectations. Sadness makes us withdraw and reflect for a while, which may result in better planning."
That's why I went into anthropology. I'd say things started going wrong with Australopithecus.
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It very is! My friend's mother was in the air auxiliaries
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I'm OK with half my family. The other half is Jehovah's Witness. We don't get along.
They don't happen to keep knocking on your door to talk about it do they?
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ok but how else am i supposed to flex that my 12th cousin 14 times removed was royalty? /s
removed 14 times!?!?! geez wtf did your cousin do to p**s your family off so bad?!?!?!
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I think human ancestry fascination is very strange because it's focus is on the biological blood line. Like, I don't know, purebred puppies or rabbits or something. Human breeding to me simply isn't interesting. I wish I could have met the couple that took in my biological grandmother and raised her as their own, changing her socioeconomic place in the world and therefore mine. The woman with whom my great aunt has shared a house for the last 80 years is interesting to me. The couple the same age as my parents who I've invited to be grandparents for my children, whom my children see every week and call grandma and grandpa, and who wrote my children into their will. None of those important and interesting and influential people show in my ancestry. To me that makes ancestry feel like a flat boring shadow of information and ancestry focus makes me see humans as more animal like. Ick.
I find my ancestry very interesting, actually. I am currently working on a family tree for my dad who turns 70 this year. I have found some pretty cool things in my family: one guy was a vet in the late 1700s and early 1800s (have no idea what the job really was about, then), one guy collapsed from sun exposure in the field and he died a few days later because they tried to treat it with blood letting, several ancestors had pretty big farms, there is surprisingly little inbreeding when you think about the fact that most of my family is from an area that is known for inbreeding historically... I could go on. I feel lucky that I can trace half my family to back in the early 1500s. :) I only research for the direct line of ancestors, though, not really caring about siblings and other spouses and so on.
As far as I'm concerned, I only need to know the medical history as far back as my grandparents. Anything else has no effect on my life.
Some people really like their family, I did, but my ex-husband's family, not so much.
I merely wanted to know my geographical origins, not the actual humans. Occasionally, I get emails how I have a 2nd or 3rd cousin that I automatically delete. I haven't spoken to my blood kin for decades, so I have no interest in meeting new ones.
Yes but what if I find out I have an extremely rich long lost thrice removed cousin?!
I really don't get it either. So now you know which country your ancestors lived in, it doesn't teach you anything about who they were, only about where they lived. How is that gonna help you in any way?
Depends, if you get more into it, it sometimes links you to other public records (like newspaper articles featuring them) and if other family members add things like photos or stories to the page, it makes the info available to you. I found some of that for my great-great-grandmother and it was pretty cool.
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You just got to know where the tree broke. And how many bad apples fell out.
Hey, good thing is, they are dead. And can't bother you. Elsewise as ghost.
There's a reason some cut off their own "family" and go tabula rasa.
Even though it can knock us down, we shouldn't mistake sadness for depression. "Sadness is an emotion, which often comes combined with other emotions, both negative (like anxiety) and positive," Euba highlighted. "Nostalgia, for instance, is a generally pleasant emotion, even though it includes within it an element of sadness."
"In contrast, depression is a clinical condition, an illness that needs to be treated," he said. "In depression, negative emotions spiral out of control, generating enormous suffering. A depressed person feels sad and anxious constantly and for long periods of time, and typically finds it difficult to sleep, or to enjoy anything in their lives."
"So while emotions are fleeting and have functions that help us live our lives, a depressive illness has no function. It is a malfunction."
It's difficult to say just how much sadness is normal, as there can be a lot of variation in how different people process emotions, but, for example, a survey of 2,000 British adults discovered that on average, they spend three months a year in a glum mood, equating to 96 days a year, or eight days each month.
Interestingly, the new year doesn't start on a good note either, with a quarter feeling at their lowest during January.
Top winter gloom inducers include the weather, shorter days with dark mornings and evenings, and feeling cold.
Spending time with friends and family is the top way people combat January blues, followed by listening to music, resting, and going outdoors.
That being said, the average person spends just under an hour a day outdoors in winter and estimates only 44 minutes of that is in direct sunlight.
Furthermore, one in five only gets between 1 and 15 minutes a day under the winter sun’s rays.
Connecting flights. Not everyone is flying to Cincinnati. Many of them are flying beyond Cincinnati. "Beyond Cincinnati" is the name of my new work in progress post-apocalypse novel.
But just as sadness is a natural emotion, so are its remedies. Dr. Shelley James, director at Age of Light Innovations, said that bright light, especially in the morning, can help boost your mood in three naturally powerful ways: by helping the brain to regulate mood hormones, supporting alertness, and making it easier to fall asleep.
James noted that simply getting outside into natural daylight can sometimes be enough to top up your mood, as it boosts your body even when the sun isn't breaking through, as well as giving you a chance to get a little exercise.
yes. this needs to be higher really. they're just convection ovens.
"If you feel sad occasionally, bear in mind that this is just a natural emotion that is very much a part of our lives," psychiatrist Rafa Euba added. "Think of it as 'mental weather,' a natural fluctuation that will pass soon and will probably be replaced by a different emotion."
"Remember too that despite what you see in social media, we are not really meant to be consistently happy. Humans will always struggle with intermittent difficult emotions, which are there because of a set of very powerful biological and evolutionary reasons, so they are not going to go away any time soon."
After reading “Dean’s Big Book of Answers” I cried when I didn’t understand how many years it was going to be before the Sun exploded, thinking it was going to be sooner. I don’t know if I would be as upset now!
However, if you suspect that you might be depressed, Euba advises you to seek professional help. "Treatment and therapy will help, and you will then be able to experience the normal range of human emotions (including occasional sadness) without the burden of your depression."
For more similar memes, check out our first publication on 'Mad Sad Not Good.'
One reason for this is because people in the past could not predict bad weather the way we can now, and one major reason for all the sunken ships is because they kept going through that area during hurricane season. They have about 6 hurricanes a year, usually between June and November
“If he watches Friends reruns one more time, Imma lose it.” (I proceed to watch another Friends rerun, wondering why I’m hearing screaming from the bushes outside).
My fun fact at one team building thing was "I work at the library" which would have been a super fun fact, if it wasn't a library staff team building thing.
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Bit rough that 63% of pandas find sad memes relatable. Pandas it will get better, hang in there and if you ever need someone to talk to we or me are here
Being human is hard. I’m glad I can commiserate with my fellow pandas
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I feel a little bit better knowing my fellow pandas are just like me about life failures.
Random but do you ever watch Cast Away and care more about Wilson than Tom Hanks? No? Just me?
Vivian, I have to watch Cast Away again now because I'm not sure.
Load More Replies... Bit rough that 63% of pandas find sad memes relatable. Pandas it will get better, hang in there and if you ever need someone to talk to we or me are here
Being human is hard. I’m glad I can commiserate with my fellow pandas
Load More Replies... I feel a little bit better knowing my fellow pandas are just like me about life failures.
Random but do you ever watch Cast Away and care more about Wilson than Tom Hanks? No? Just me?
Vivian, I have to watch Cast Away again now because I'm not sure.
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