“Sometimes Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine”: 50 Hilariously Accurate Memes About Mental Health, As Shared By This Page
Isn't it awesome that we live in an age when going to therapy isn't as frowned upon as it was, for example, for Tony Soprano?
I'll go out on a limb and say that the internet culture has contributed to mental health awareness too.
There are countless online discussions where people not only share their struggles but also relate to each other, letting the other person know that their feelings are valid and offering suggestions on what they could do to make everything a little easier to bear.
And let's not forget the ultimate tool used for social normalization—humor; laughing at yourself and with others can remedy even some of the biggest wounds.
'Therapy Memes Group' is a Facebook community that invites us to do just that. Let's try!
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It's sad when you find your neighbour's wheelie bin has more exciting outings than you do!
My husband works with this guys dad. Hilarious story and the guy is defo a legend now!
Load More Replies...Probably off to the ACME factory to buy a catapult and explosives
That wasn't a bus, it was a light rail train. I remember when that happened. It was a year before I moved here. It got off somewhere near the airport IIRC.
To be fair, It was probably cheaper for him than hailing a cab to catch his flight
Load More Replies...well if he could drive i am sure he would. although it is hard for coyotes to get good car insureance theese days
However, as the public perception of therapy changes, new challenges are arising. A 2022 study from the American Psychological Association (APA) found that 6 in 10 psychologists "no longer have openings for new patients."
The shortage comes as demand for therapy soars: since the beginning of the pandemic, about three-quarters of practitioners have seen their waiting lists grow.
In the same period, almost 80% of practitioners reported an increase in patients with anxiety disorders and 66% have seen an increase in those needing treatment for depression.
Wow I thought discombobulated was forever my favorite word, now I have two, go me.
Load More Replies...I didn't know there was a word to describe me at any social gathering.
I don’t think it was ever gone. I think we’re does hiding in the corner too long to remember what the word was!
I'm sorry to crash the party, but: From Latin latibulum (“hiding place”), from latere (“to lie hid”) - latibulize (rare, archaic, intransitive): To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter. - so basically it's hibernation. (etymology from wiktionary.org)
And you’d think having all 3 would cancel them out…instead I end up standing in my kitchen turning in circles like a broken sim
It's like.the worst of all worlds...everything is a crisis.at the time, but it's easier and safer to ignore it in my bed. But then I wake and.realize I don't know where I am or how this cat or dog got into my house.
Load More Replies...I’m very mad because I have anxiety and depression and they still haven’t canceled out yet…
Yeah, but when you have ADHD even the corner seems too much of an effort...
No that's because the corner turns into a monster. Cabinets need wiped, I can't find my rag, where is my left shoe and finally...why is my hand bleeding...has anyone seen a bandaid?
Load More Replies...Every single thing that you manage to do is a win. At my worst, I set myself a goal of achieving three things a day. At first, the three things were: get out of bed, clean my teeth, eat a meal. After a few days of doing that the achievements got bigger. Baby steps are key to recovery. Activation comes before motivation.
Something wise I learned from Agents of Shield. You don't have to solve the whole problem, you just need to solve part of it. Solve 1% of the problem everyday, in 100 days you'll have it.
That's why, while struggling with anxiety disorder and fibro, when I'd make a checklist of things to do, I'd always include extremely basic things and things I'd already accomplished that day so I could have things to check off
"Is it better now than it was before I started?" My life has been better since I started to ask myself that on various tasks :)
“I started my private practice just before Covid hit, and it was certainly filling up then,” Dr. Jennifer Reid, a psychiatrist, writer, and podcast host in Philadelphia, told The Guardian. “But the numbers have exponentially risen since that time.”
Reid even stopped advertising her practice on sites like Psychology Today and other places where people can find therapists. There's simply no need now.
And with some ND conditions, you get so good at the game on hard mode that all the people on easy mode get jealous of your skills. Nevermind that you need those skills just to hit par!
From now on I will be using this game analogy. Up to now I have been telling kids that school for ND's is like they are training with a backpack full of rocks. It's exhausting and unfair, but when you find your place - you will be stronger. Just need to survive people saying your lazy or stop trying through choice - they are the ones who have things all wrong.
Load More Replies...Fantastic allegory. One of the best I’ve ever heard, and I heard many.
So true, my husband was undiagnosed for 11 years complete with medical gaslighting. Just because you can't see their pain and/or injury doesn't mean that it's not real!!!!!!! When someone says something is wrong BELIEVE them!!!!!!
Truly sorry your husband experienced such unprofessional behavior. Lost my Mom, sister, and dear friend to medical incompetence. Boggles my mind how those jetsam-level doctors keep their licenses.
Load More Replies...Just got my authism (ye olde asperger) and this was exactly how I experienced it.
Does Marvin have social media? because a photo of a lizard enjoying coffee smell could be the high point of my day.
Poor Marvin just soaking up some warmth, getting some aromatherapy, watching the world go by. Living his best life. Nope, can't narc on that. He is my spirit bro from another mother. I feel ya bro.
I would go out of my way to shop that particular 7-11 just to visit Marvin.
Awesome lizard versus corporate office? Yeah, I'm Team Marvin all the way
Being an MD who worked as a psychiatrist and suffering from 3 of the above mentioned myself I can only say... it's true. No freaking other way that we know of, and it's frustrating the hell out of me.
Some days it works, some days it doesn't. I've been lucky to have more of the working days, as of late. Hope you have more, too.
Load More Replies...People: you just gotta get up and get at it! My anxiety, chronic migraines, dysphoria, and almost constant sense of exhaustion: images-2-6...b2afa.jpeg
And to make it even better you'll be forced to see medical professionnal judging you contemptuously just to get vital drugs and devices, taking even more energy from you instead of actually helping.
Even better is when you find a method that works (80%) you are criticized and judged.
Load More Replies...severe scoliosis is a pain, my shoulder blade will suddenly start hurting and i have to lay down in a weird position and wait for it to go away and i can't focus on anything else cause it hurts so bad
Exactly! And then prescribers can't understand why you miss doses when literally not taking your meds is PATHOLOGICAL
fr like can I get my money back even tho I don't have the 30-day return policy?
Removed "the chair" when remodeling my bedroom to avoid the pile of clothes. Let me introduce: "the floor".
I too have a gravity-fed apparel organisation system.
Load More Replies...The Chair has become overpopulated, let me further introduce you to: The Stationary Bicycle.
That's exactly why I have 2 laundry baskets. One for dirty clothes, and one that's full of clean clothes I rifle through everyday to find something to wear. The trick is to never actually put anything away. :)
I keep my clean clothes in the dryer. Need to do laundry? Stuff in the dryer gets dumped onto the couch, then shoved back in later. Too full? It goes on top of the dryer. I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates putting away laundry, lol.
Load More Replies...I put them on a tote at the end of my bed. I don't recall what is in the tote but I will get to it some day. Actually, this one isn't really bad, it's just practical. I wear my jeans more than once. If I've only worn a shirt a little while and nothing physical (no sweat) I'll wear it again on a different errand. Less laundry and clothes last longer due to fewer wash cycles. This one isn't 'lazy' it is just practical. I have other stuff for 'lazy'. lol
Oh good God yes. I live in an RV and my family doesn't have a coat rack yet, so we use the passenger chair. That's exactly what we do, wow. Lol
Ill be honest we've never had a coat rack so I doubt we'd get one.
Load More Replies...Reid focuses on anxiety and insomnia, which have been “major players” in the pandemic. According to her, people with anxiety, phobias or obsessive-compulsive disorder related to germs had particular trouble. Then there were the isolation and doomscrolling.
Now, she noticed, people are struggling to re-enter the world. "People are finding they're having anxiety trying to re-engage in social settings in situations that were previously not as safe", she said. “Now they’re having to kind of retrain their brains.”
They do have high suicide rates yes. Mostly as they see through strategies.
Load More Replies...I actually hated my therapist. Rlly condescending and annoying. Now I don’t have therapy and it’s working a shitload better than she was
A bad psychologist can do more harm than none. And some are downright dangerous.
Load More Replies...In some cases, when the kids are adults and absolutely refuse your help (I.g. drug problems) it is better to let go. Apart from that you always have a responsibility for your children, even when they're legally adults
Load More Replies..."You only got one family", yeah well you only got one appendix too but when that thing messing with your health you cut that jerk outta your life!
My wife and I have decided we don't want kids. We're going to tell them tonight at dinner.
I’ve been told this for years, about my sister, only able to actually cut ties when she abandoned a dog she had adopted years before because she was moving and the dog was too much trouble
You are allowed to do what is best for your emotional, mental, and physical health!
Kind of reminds me of when I was helping my nephew get over his father abandoning him and his mom. I told him the next time any of his dad's family gives him c**p about what a good guy his dad is... he should look them in the face and tell them "how'd you dare to tell me that I'm my father's son when that was just an ACCIDENT of birth" "I'd rather look around me, compose a better song 'cause that's the honest measure of my worth" (yes I did get that from Jethro Tull)
And it feels so much better when you finally get up the courage and do it! Speaking from experience!
The appendix is literally part of you and you know what we do when it becomes toxic? We cut that s**t out and toss it away. If I can do that to an actual physical part of my body (actually still have that one but the gall bladder got yeeted) I can do it to a person.
I said that too! Cool how we had the same thought
Load More Replies...iiii feeell happppyyy *bonk* (edit: its from monty python & the holy grail)
Load More Replies...Hehehe my dad says still vertical. I will introduce him to the ventilated half
Load More Replies...My go-to these days has become a simple, I'm Still Standing, and not in the Elton John song reference sense at all. Going through a very rough time right now, an unimaginable loss, and the fact I'm still standing and not curled up in the corner sobbing my heart out is a plus. Little shaky some days, but generally standing and sometimes that's the best you can do, so OWN IT!
When asked this my grandfather's response was always "well I woke up and was still breathing so.."
Winston Churchill once described his morning routine as "Every morning I read the obituaries in the newspaper and if I'm not in them, I get up".
Load More Replies...My mom has replaced the default "I'm fine" with "tired but good." I don't think it especially healthy, particularly when I know that while she is tired, she is most definitely not good.
Even great parents give you an awful lot of terrible gifts you just can't seem to get rid of
Therapist: Dude, you gotta tell them to leave. They're just causing you trouble. Me: They've lived here for years, I can't just kick them out! That'd be so rude, and I'm not sure if they have anywhere else to go! OCD, Depression, Anxiety: *setting everything on fire*
Therapy seems an awful lot like people stomping through your brain sometimes
Sometimes it’s not a parents fault if they give you their mental illness. PTSD is crazy. I have it as a parent. It doesn’t help my son with severe depression. We are just both mentally screwed. I fight for him every day.
That's all that matters. My mother had severe psychiatric issues but through it all, I knew she was trying and how much she loved me. We struggled together. I've never heard it from the other side but wow, keep up the support and love!
Load More Replies...SO rude!! I like remembering the time my step dad beat the s**t out of me!!! 😕🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Reid said people often may need to return to their primary care doctor for a period of time, “or they just end up going without and waiting on waitlists, unfortunately”.
The APA study also found that the average psychologist reported being contacted by 15 potential patients every month.
Reid, who combines therapy and medical approaches, said she generally has space for about one new patient every few weeks.
True. Sometimes that "lazy" is an entire choice
Load More Replies...Yea, laziness is real, but I like this person’s optimism.
Load More Replies...I still suffer immense amounts of internalised shame from being told throughout childhood that I was lazy, when I now know it was mostly a mixture of mental health problems and being neurodivergent, both undiagnosed until I was much older. Plus some genuine laziness, if I'm honest!
Genuine laziness or just prioritizing the right activities?
Load More Replies...Existing! You mean existing, not being lazy. Last time I checked we should have the freedom to do anything we want. Even if that choice is nothing but literally existing, being, and breathing. We've been convinced by those who actually do nothing but have fun and exist that we are lazy when we want to do the same exact thing. None of us asked to be born and I'm tired of the elite having everything they want paying others to take care of them. While they live it up and tell us that it's not ok or possible for us to live the same way and we are lazy if we just want to f*****g exist and do nothing.
Load More Replies...Now BP is also mad at me, seems I'm typing comments to fast for its liking ☹️
If life was a horror movie, it’s something about Pennywise and ‘We all float down here’… but my floaty toys are running out of air :(
Where did they get this footage of my last job interview?? (Edited: typo)
They were filming effects for a monster movie before the monsters showed up.
Load More Replies...Antidepressants don't actually make you feel happy though; that's a really common misconception. They are to balance the chemicals in your brain to counteract the lack of serotonin your brain is producing. They level out your mood and keep you on an even keel. Also, the extent of an antidepressant's effects are dependent on many things; including the severity of your depression is, and your circumstances, your physical health, and other mental health conditions, as well as genetics. Having said all that, if you feel like you are experiencing symptoms of depression, it's always worthwhile visiting your Doctor.
Load More Replies...To manage the growing demand, Reid works with a platform for Philadelphia therapists that allows them to see each other's availability. “We really feel a sense of responsibility to try and get patients some good options if we can, if we’re not able to see them,” she said.
Becoming a 68 year old dominatrix would be a good start.
Load More Replies...Got a friend who did that, it's harder than it sounds cause they expect to be showered with praise or chasticised (depending on the client), and you usually have to clean after them anyway.
Once knew someone in that line of work... and she has retired in her 30s. THIRTIES! Not sure it would be worth it, though.
Load More Replies...Nah… That’s when you get to smack them around (with their consent) and charge $250
Load More Replies...There is a show about her 'Stacy Dooley sleeps over- 70 year old dominatrix' and it's really good. You can find it on YouTube if you don't live in the Uk (on Now Tv and the iPlayer here I think) She's such a lovely woman (and Stacey is too) and her story is really cool
Oh my gosh ! This is like me trying to park the car ! If I know (or think) someone is watching me park, I cannot get the car in the damn space that is the size of a bloody landing strip. On my own I can nip into the smallest of spaces with my wheels in line with the kerb in one try. *thinking* maybe I should take photos as evidence 🤔
When the tanker got stuck in the canal, it was our response at work messed up."At least u cannot see our error from space"!
Def like this playing the piano, alone I never play a wrong note, as soon as someone’s watching/listening, it’s like I’m mashing potatoes with my bare hands
I am under the meme-spell E33F4EA6-C...d-jpeg.jpg
Need to add "That's a BAD! That's a BAD mister client! Respect mah authoritah!"
Our book shop cat was called Manny but he ate a poisoned mouse so no more bookstore cats for us *sob*
He has an empty shelf forever tho, where he used to sit
Load More Replies...I would do this but would be to anxious about spilling the said iced coffee so :(
Imagine bumping into your therapist every time you go to your (not yet so much) comfort place
Seeking a therapist through word of mouth – asking friends or calling practitioners even if they’re fully booked – is a good first step. The increasing use of telehealth may also help, particularly under programs such as PsyPact, a legal framework that allows practitioners to work in multiple states. But remember that you can also simultaneously express yourself through memes!
Me three. I am a mentally unstable hedgehog; I am sad and prickly, but I still need love, as long as nobody gets too close.
Load More Replies...me sharing that one time i hit my head and my mother yelled at me for getting blood on the table instead of helping me be like
I'm very much trying not to be that parent. Looking good so far, but she's only 20 months old
I bet ur gonna be amazing and remember all u can try ur best and that that's literally the best thing u can do for ur daughter :)
Load More Replies...A woman at work told us how she had not enough food at home and couldn't eat lunch at school when she was young and thought it was very funny. Nobody else did.
Me but my mom got mad at me for freaking out that I made Allstate in my speech competition and when I said "sorry, I'm excited" went "yeah it's cool but you have to miss school". Its literally the most selective thing in my state AND this is my first year in the program. I just wish she would be proud of me.
If it helps, this mom is proud of you and your accomplishment.
Load More Replies...Ah yes. I learned a long time ago that I should never mention my family. It's always dark.
My father pointing a gun at me and me stupidly saying, "I dare you".......felt that sucker whizz right past my ear....ah fun times
you should see the looks i get when I say " I was 5 when i was taught to make my first explosive" or my sister "I was 7 when dad gave me chloroform to clean my oil paint brushes with.
First time I listened to Paper Crown by Alec Benjaming I felt personally attacked, this pretty much sums everything up
Just Googled the lyrics; I feel personally attacked too. We can all be personally attacked together.
Load More Replies...I think that it's an American parcel delivery company. Not sure why its mentioned here.🤔🤭
Load More Replies...Gets steeper when you stop wanting to make jelly with you grandma, so about age 20.
Load More Replies...Germany seems to be a very efficient country, all in all, so that doesn't surprise me.
Load More Replies...They are in cleaning mode. Seriously, they have a cleaning program and busy day means more cleaning cycles. They can't be used in that time, so we tell the customers they are broken because that usually ends the discussion (tell people "they have to be cleaned" often invites "bUT can't you wait after MY McFlurry is done!!" and it never ends, so ... broken. Come back in 30 minutes, chances are they are working) (Source: Former McDonalds employee in Germany)
I am interested in this trope that these things are broken so often. I must go check at my local mickyd's to verify.
Irl or in a game?? I love a side quest! I try and do as many as possible before venturing on the main quest.
Load More Replies......It's like running side quests in Skyrim. There's a main story line? I'm calling BS on that.
I'm also polite, even when people are being downright rude to me. I need to woman the f*ck up and start being braver.
Jimminy Christmas!!! That is me!!!! My best friend keeps telling me she is going to put "I'm fine" on my tombstone!!
If only it were this simple... The source is usually that jerk I see in the mirror
That’s because you’re looking through the window again, silly!
Load More Replies...Chain letters, the social media of the 90's where the number of letters you recieved were the equivalent of likes on your status updates.
I got a chain letter from an acquaintance once, lost all respect for them.
I literally made this joke Monday night about the comedy of errors that was my unlucky day monday! (And my life in general when I look back at it!)
But even in Poland you can't stop playing this out in your head over and over...
But it's been three years and you think about it at two am lying on your bed.
S**t, did they really have to make this post about all of my shortcomings?
🎶I want to touch you but not be neeeeaaar you.Can I mail you my hands?🎵 Sing that however you want, I just made it up 😁
As your brain is inside your head, yeah, everything related to it is 'only in your head'
Brother once told me my sinus infection was all in my head. Him I smacked. Hard.
Load More Replies...I hate people who say that. Literally...we are brains piloting meat machines. Yes, Janice. It's all in my head. That's where I am!
One of the best quotes I've heard was from one of the Potter movies - Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why should that make it any less real?" (or something like that). Seriously - that's truth right there.
the other option is to let it all out of my head. believe me, nobody wants that.
Huh, I wonder who said this. They should really put a signature or five on their posts so we know where to give credit.
just doin me dutie sah. 42-640f160..._700-1.jpg
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Take heart in the fact that the alternative is much worse
Wash your skin off? Is this like a way to say one uses a lot of make up? I'm not understanding this?
You seriously want to spend 50% of the time you're conscious licking yourself? 😥
Load More Replies...It’s basically real life among us. You’re just trying to yeet the toxic friend without bothering your actual friends.
We are in the end those who are in our way to get better.
Load More Replies...Where did they get my pictures? Although, I was always a pessimist, it just confirmed my beliefs
i ask with fear because sometimes when i do ppl yell at me-ohhhhh now i see it lmaooo
You can't be corgi queen because I'm corgi queen haha mine is a red headed tri named Ferg
Load More Replies...I guess I have trauma. I'ma go latibulate now an find out what it is.
wait yall dont do this? this isnt normal? im freaking out rn
I will never ask for help... even if I'm hanging by my pinky off a cliff with a river full of crocs beneath.... I'll still be like "nah.. I got it! Thanks tho!"
Went on a wine tour yesterday and the guide explained how it's champagne only if it is from the town Champagne. It was destiny that made me open this post!
Champagne isn't a town, it's a whole area spawning over 3 or 4 départements :) Source: trust me I'm French
Load More Replies...The word sparkling always make me think of "Sparkling Cyanide", a book by Agatha Christie.
,💓 you because I adore Agatha Christie! The Tuesday Club Murders..
Load More Replies...My favourite variant on this is "It's only repartee if it's from the Repartee region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling wit."
I don't understand your comments, but, as the Italians have great wines, and sparkling wines, why aren't Italians all up the French on this?
Load More Replies...And contrary to popular belief bourbon does not have any requirement to be from a specific region(Kentucky)
The three main Bourbon producing states are Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana.
Load More Replies...I HAVe THAT DOWN PAT ( tghis is winston) yes-641067...b08cda.jpg
Potentially unfair to the puppy. Could be that there are plenty of reasons for hating yourself.
Garbage can on fire is about as precise as it can get describing myself 😊
I was going to go with "razor sharp teeth and a six-inch claw that slashes across your belly... here... and here..."
Load More Replies...How did they get a picture of my work place. Looks exactly like this every morning.
If they want to drive without seat belts on they're the problem, not me!
But... but I made a list! See, it's a list with all the stuff I need/want to do today, and it's written in purple pen, which is my favorite pen to write in even though blue is my favorite color, but sometimes I tell people my favorite color is red or black, because those are the colors I wear the most, but I actually really like silver, but I don't think I have any silver clothes... wait, what was I talking about?
Sometimes when I am at work few a little more energetic I think I will do this and this and this when I get home. But I have a half hr drive home and by the time I get home I end up feeling tired and don't even think about any of the things I planed on doing.
i get lots of stuff done every day. it might not be the stuff i wanted to do, or stuff that is in any way useful, but i got it done!
I read that name and expected to see a born-again Seinfeld character.
Just tell them you need to vent and don't need any 'solutions'. That worked with my husband the last time I needed to vent.
Or worse - when they constantly try to out-vent you. Whatever your problem is, THEIR problems are far worse and compared to that yours are not even valid
That’s just toxic of them. The example in the meme isn’t toxic though, I think
Load More Replies...Let me act out my own theater production where I play all the characters and I'll be good afterwards until the next crisis
Yeah brain, you should really wait for my consent before putting your thoughts in my head!
I feel you. Horrible, imagined scenarios are some of my favorite intrusive thoughts.
Load More Replies...I used to think my brain was my most important organ, but then I realized who was telling me this.
is it just me or does the monkey pictured above look like three specific older men combined
Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Amy Farah Fowler present "Fun With Flags" proudly sponsored by my current relationship.
OP : please genuinely feel free to do some sparring with me if it helps
Yes please. Preferably with him tied down + gagged and me with a list of all of the abuses he piled upon my family growing up.
Me currently dreading taxes because I still have yet to register as a resident of my state
Brain giving himself trust issue by not upholding his end of the bargain
No way, I need to CHANGE my behavior in order to heal?? I didn't sign up for this
Wait to feel better i have to feel different ? No, that's too uncomfortable
I have up voted everyone of these memes....sigh......I need to get my sh1t in order
And at age 68 I can still remember exactly the incidents when I was 4 that caused it all.
Getting too personal now. Time to switch to something less difficult, like checking the news headlines.
The truth is introverts are NOT necessarily awkward, antisocial, uncomfortable, intellectual, book-loving, or ANY of the stereotypes, good or bad, from the internet. Introverts merely deplete energy while socializing and charge up during private time, while extroverts deplete energy during private time and socialize to build energy. When TIRED an introvert might prefer to be alone, but when ENERGIZED, they might be outgoing, highly social, friendly, inquisitive, etc.
So ANNOYING when someone is like, “Not good. I feel terrible. My hip hurts, my back hurts, I have a runny nose, I’m nauseous…” It’s polite and expected to ask, “How are you today?” I legit DO NOT CARE about your problems, nor about those of the 50 other people of whom I feel obligated to ask the same question every day at work.
I used to be a lot more resigned about unacceptable things I can't change, but now I'm really f*****g angry.
Let it be known that I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am now changing the things I cannot accept.
This is SO much better. Can't upvote or admire you enough.
Load More Replies...It's an old prayer - give me the courage to change the things I cannot accept, to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference. I've no idea how, but if you can crack that, you will be happier (I imagine).
I prefer ... Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people who p**s me off. ( My insanity keeps me sane)
Load More Replies...Oh my word that would make the best rom-com! I would totally watch/read it!!
Exactly. The reason you're there is because you don't, or one of you really thinks you don't and has brow-beaten the other into agreeing.
Load More Replies...Right here proof, that therapy is useful and time well spent
Please talk about me behind my back. That way I don't have to consider it constructive criticism.
Me too. I literally did this last week where in the middle of class I pulled out a Spiderman mask and just wore it until the teacher noticed. Teacher is super blind, so the rest of the class was laughing until someone told the teacher!
Load More Replies...Adam notices the red hat, but chooses not to engage the MAGAt, since he knows it'll lead to some ridiculous sh|t.
Yeah I am Bert and most of my family is Ernie. It is exhausting even trying to engage. 😕
Load More Replies...Friend?? I'm supposed to have a friend?? Oops. Gonna have to get me one of those if I ever leave the house again.
I'm one of the people that falls into the category of "has that friend".
My problems were never with my mum and dad, my problems were all other people related
If only I could hibernate... No one needs November to February (Northern hemisphere)
Buy a therapy light. It will work a miracle to get you through the winter.
Load More Replies...Those Chinchillas are taking f*cking dirt baths, and we're out here with what? Racism? Poverty? War Crimes? Evolution was a mistake.
Now we have to get up, go to work, so we have a roof over our head. If I were a bear, I'd just sleep in a cave and not worry about rent and s**t.
I thank God my dad is a chef and now that he's retired cooks for all of us 🙏
Sooo... What's for dinner tonight and where do you live?
Load More Replies...Soup saved my tummy and mental health so many time at this point lol
This is why I thought Hello Fresh was going to be a good idea...I was mistaken.
Same. I get so excited every week to pick my gousto meals but when it comes to making them....chips
Load More Replies...I use to be an extrovert. I taught public school for 25 years. Took early retirement to fight cancer. Now, I don't want to leave the house, don't want to deal with people. What happened to common kindness and goodness? Where went the days that you didn't think twice about helping your neighbor? Does it now cost to give of your time to your those less fortunate? Is family no longer the most important thing?
Covid happened to all of us with compromised immune systems and the crazies took over the asylum while we stayed indoors.
Load More Replies...This is actually a very sad truth. I was well on the way to becoming a social worker (uni and everything) until I met a professor who sighed "You have no idea how many of my students just choose this career because they secretly hope they can help/heal themselves." And that is why I quit. Because damn, eye opener
Once when I was at my psychiatrist's office, he was making phone calls ( he sucked) and one was to HIS therapist.
Load More Replies...I thought I liked kids until I started teaching. Turns out they're little monsters
I work in behavioral health....I feel this on a level that was previous unknown to me.
OP probably didn't know people at the beginning of his career, just wanted to help them. Pessimists are mostly experienced optimists.
Children that are little adults are rarely happy children, or adults
When I was a child I was way too nice, calm, quiet etc the whole spiel. So my mother gifted me a cabbage patch kid doll and gave it a very outgoing, adventurous character. I was even allowed to take the doll to school and it became our class mascott, sitting on top of the blackboard every day. Years later my mother told me that she had planned all this with my homeroom teacher to try and get me out of my shell. 30 years later I still have that doll, her name is Alwine.
My fiance has a degree in psychology and he talks me through some things when I have anxiety attacks and whatnot. But it's irresponsible and very much not recommended to have a biased person treat you. It's not fair to either person.
I just mask as much as I can because if they change to help me cope I´ll notice and start feeling guilty about it.
Load More Replies...Bit of a sweeping statement there... it depends on many factors, not least of which the partner and what type of help you need. Also on how willing/capable you are to open up to a complete stranger, as opposed to being open with your partner. And, for many people, whether they can afford a therapist in the first place
Some people say that therapists are "friends you paid for" and this is so annoying and inaccurate
Tell that to every flipping behavioral therapist I have had. I do the best with my listening rock, it at least pays attention
It's not a proper science - otherwise experiments would have repeatable results.
Reproducibility is important for the acceptance of conclusions drawn in science, but you can still use the scientific method in psychiatry/psychology. With the unusual difficulty in ability to control the variables along with the self-reporting aspect, it's a tough subject for anyone studying it scientifically, but the profession is doing its best to continue to learn what works and what doesn't. Just had to comment as I see people reject the entire profession due to relative lack of concrete conclusions compared to other branches of medicine (which are also works in progress). They don't know it all, but they know a lot.
Load More Replies...Maybe throwing the chair can be a calming mechanism
Load More Replies...it's the equivalent of telling someone to cheer up when they're depressed
Lol, I flipped the f*ck out on "Steady Eddie" once for telling me to calm down , it scared the ever loving S*it out of him and he never was totally cool around me again
I actually sometimes realise I don't need to be as angry as I am and calm down
Haha, I've got this on one of my leaflets. I used to have medication for acne and it was such a severe medicine it said that one of the side effects 1/100000 people actually committed suicide. 1/100 people got depression. It was the closest I've ever been to depression and I always used to laugh it off. I've also had back pain ever since. Needless to say I wasn't on it for long
This is why I never learned how to drive. Everyone was horrified by the prospect of me getting behind the wheel of anything larger than a bicycle. Myself included.
This is me, but i usually feel super motivated at 3 am then it leaves by 6am
You have a home! You have a baed! You have a pillow! You have a blankie! Did I say blankie? I need sleep...
Disney, 'cause Springer is as real as wrestling on World Wrestling Entertainment.
I knew someone who went on Jerry Springer and 70% of the story was fabricated. Some of it was true, but not the juicy violent parts that's for sure
Load More Replies...I honestly wish I had this problem. My dad teaches at my school, so I can't say most of the stuff I would typically say about him, because it's beneficial to all parties involved that he keep his job
About how I felt when working as a psychiatrist. The work made me so sick I had to switch to another field
I'm fine and chill here. it works some. making friends that are crazy too but funny is the best way to do it.
Load More Replies...This! Everyone is weird in some way or another (it would be a total statistical anomaly if you are perfect average in every aspect) and that's ok
Sooooooo, I shouldn’t stay friends with her? Even tho she lief abt getting with my ex to make me jealous?
The nice days were the worst part. If he just hurts you, that's easy, he hates you. (he only used for ease of typing, to be clear an abuser can be any gender, don't come at me) but when he throws the kindness and love in, you get so confused and that's when they slip in and drive the stake in. In case anyone still wondered how it happens. They hurt you and love you in cycles that destroy your ability to think rationally.
I've never had anyone lavish me with such love, care and kindness, or someone cut me down so hard and cruelly as my ex. Convinced me I was dumb, crazy.. my confidence is shattered. I hope you are doing wonderful now!
Load More Replies...I dunno, "We need to talk" is much MUCH worse for me.
Load More Replies...OK, let's do some work. Honestly, I feel awful. Yep. Awful is how I feel... This feeling is an amalgamation of minutia resembling things that are inconveniences on their own, but are ever-present. That's OK. Let's put all that feeling in a box over here and not bother wasting my or anyone else's time with it because it's never going away. ... Is that how it's done?
Usually. But, Depending on where one is at, it may be too much work NOT to do this, but see my addendum replied to Helena.
Load More Replies...Not entirely correct; sometimes these people will end up ignorant fuucks and SPREADING suffering everywhere in the long run
Yoooo, Me and my stepmom took the same pics! Same place, positioning, everything!
Feeling nothing is even worse than feeling bad emotions is my experience
That is how I felt when taking SSRI medication. No depression, but also no motivation to do anything.
Load More Replies...A common misconception is that anti-depressants make you happy. No, they just suppress depression. And also joy, and fun, and anxiety and comfort and everything.
Wait... They're meant to turn back on? I've been doing this for twenty years... If they turn back on, I'm just going to explode!
In my head this was: romantic dinner. Passionate sex. Mild breakdown. Talking. Cuddling... Sounded really sweet in my head until brain 2 said: 'urgh. She brought her work home with her'
(F*ck out my way when you see me, I'm rollin' with the LGBT)
That's bullshît, you have to diagnose them first before you can decide on the right therapy
I think it's just saying you shouldn't rush to diagnosis. I imagine it depends on how subtle the patient's condition is.
Load More Replies...You have to make conversation to help the client feel comfortable talking to you first.
Why is this so hated? Extra hour of daylight at evening time.....
Load More Replies...me with depression- *crying* therapist-"just be happy" Me- IM CURED!!! *facepalm*
Since I can't make out the word this advice is really unhelpful
Think of another word for the feces of male cattle
Load More Replies...After some thought (and squinting) I *think* the censored word is "b******t"
...wow, I swapped out the "i" for a "1" in the word "sh*t" and it still got censorbotted.
Load More Replies...Ooh, I know this one - it's what bulls do in a field after eating and going thru the whole digestive process.
From religion to internet humor: How humanity copes with the suck of being humanity. ----- my theory after 10 years of therapy, in which I'm told "doing it that way so your abusers don't "win" isn't healthy". Well, I'm alive, I'm functional, and I'm not hurting myself or others, so what's wrong with me seeing it as "I win the war!" versus "ah, they were just lashing out".... Yeah. They were. And?Why must I understand their trauma, while they *caused mine*? .....
May you accept where you are, how you feel, whenever you choose. May each day offer you some instances of when you win the war.. on whatever battle you're taking up. May you give yourself the space and grace to Just BE.
Load More Replies...My mottto is push it down deep and just live in the moment and have fun joking about it while your at it might as well your going down anyway
It just makes me sad that so many people use humour and memes to cover up the fact that we are depressed, mentally ill, unable to get up most days, and simply just want to give up. Why is the world like this? I don't wanna give up, I really don't but sometimes I feel like I don't have a choice.
As someone once said, it doesn't take all sorts - it's just that we've got all of them.
Load More Replies...Sometimes it's nice and funny to commiserate and know many others are feeling very similar. And while some of these memes are painfully familiar, just know that the 'funny' is not directed at anyone in particular. As a therapist, I am just overjoyed we are talking about our journeys and even growing from them. In some spaces, we have normalized getting mental health support. That is SUCH a win for humanity.
From religion to internet humor: How humanity copes with the suck of being humanity. ----- my theory after 10 years of therapy, in which I'm told "doing it that way so your abusers don't "win" isn't healthy". Well, I'm alive, I'm functional, and I'm not hurting myself or others, so what's wrong with me seeing it as "I win the war!" versus "ah, they were just lashing out".... Yeah. They were. And?Why must I understand their trauma, while they *caused mine*? .....
May you accept where you are, how you feel, whenever you choose. May each day offer you some instances of when you win the war.. on whatever battle you're taking up. May you give yourself the space and grace to Just BE.
Load More Replies...My mottto is push it down deep and just live in the moment and have fun joking about it while your at it might as well your going down anyway
It just makes me sad that so many people use humour and memes to cover up the fact that we are depressed, mentally ill, unable to get up most days, and simply just want to give up. Why is the world like this? I don't wanna give up, I really don't but sometimes I feel like I don't have a choice.
As someone once said, it doesn't take all sorts - it's just that we've got all of them.
Load More Replies...Sometimes it's nice and funny to commiserate and know many others are feeling very similar. And while some of these memes are painfully familiar, just know that the 'funny' is not directed at anyone in particular. As a therapist, I am just overjoyed we are talking about our journeys and even growing from them. In some spaces, we have normalized getting mental health support. That is SUCH a win for humanity.
