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50 Unhinged Relatable Memes That May Help You Laugh Through The Madness
Interview With Expert
Mental health issues are no laughing matter but sometimes it does help to laugh. While some believe that mental health memes play down the gravity of the situation, research has found that relatable and hilarious memes can assist in alleviating symptoms of depression and anxiety. Scrolling through funny stuff can facilitate the expression of difficult emotions in a novel and creative way, say the scientists, providing social and emotional bonds with others. And as a result, those suffering can feel more understand socially supported.
If you're feeling a bit down today, you can head over to a Facebook page called Freakshow of Madness. It has more than 286,000 followers and provides a safe space for anyone who feels like they are alone in a dark world. The page shares funny memes to make us feel like we are all in this crazy crisis together. We've picked the best ones and put together a list especially for you. Bored Panda also reached out to counselling expert and Head of International Development for The Harmony Hospital Group and Palm Tree Clinic, Nicholas Axcell for his expert advice on how to look after your mental health and when to seek professional help.
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Snowkit 9 months ago
A real one I did, was when I was 7yo. I put ketchup, and salt, and pepper, on my pizza…and liked it…I was gross 7yo
Featherytoad 9 months ago
I'm 54, and I put sour cream on my Red Baron pepperoni pizzas.
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Verena 9 months ago
People declaring the guy who killed the CEO of an health insurance compancy as a hero - and same people declaring the guy who is killing the US social securities, fresh water and air supply as a hero.
Verena 9 months ago (edited)
US billionaires living in green areas and having houses in eco-crazy Europe and having luxury boats, while destroying fresh water and air resources for the average citizen in the US, selling it off as "boost to economy and cheap energy & groceries for everyone". And same average citizens are adoring them for this.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
Not really a thing in the UK, except for the self-employed.
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Iampenny 9 months ago
A video popped up on my news feed today, “if you're happy and you know it, it's your meds”
Still Going 9 months ago
It doesn't say my name anywhere, I object! (Anyone who knows me can verify)
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Me too. Would have sung it out loud but don't want to wake the cat.
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If you find yourself struggling with your mental health, know that you are not alone. According to Mental Health America, just over 23% of adults in the U.S. experienced a mental illness in 2023. That’s around 60 million people. 5.86% experienced a severe mental illness.
Nicholas Axcell is a counselling expert and Head of International Development for The Harmony Hospital Group, which runs boutique psychiatric hospital, Palm Tree Clinic. He kindly agreed to chat to Bored Panda to give some advice to anyone who currently feels like they aren't coping, or is worried about a friend or family member struggling with their mental health.
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LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
So, according to this, I can actually claim to be successful at something for once in my life? Woot!
Mary Peace 9 months ago
Can't bear those people who tell me I 'wasted time & energy' with worrying. At last I know how to answer them.
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ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 9 months ago
The FÙCKING Dishes And The FÙCKING Laundry. There BP, fixed it for you.
Serial pacifist 9 months ago (edited)
The struggle is real. Add some more laundry and the rock is two times the size and rolling back fast.
Sally Moen 9 months ago
Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a hill then watching the boulder roll down the other side so then he needs to push a boulder up a hill.
Daria 9 months ago
i like doing both cos it's a great feeling when everything around you is clean, neat, and tidy
WindySwede 9 months ago
well, i like the aftermath. But the road there, or mostly the road before even starting the tasks is almost worse sometimes? You had av dv, fixed that.
Load More Replies...Axcell says some of the signs you might need to seek professional help include battling to handle the daily demands of life, changes in behaviour, other people noticing strange behavior or uncharacteristic behavior, changes in your routine, signs of paranoia, depression or extreme mood swings.
Bored Panda asked Axcell if medication is always necessary, or whether counselling alone can suffice. "Definitely medication helps at times, but we treat our clients holistically," he told us.
"This means medication might be part of treatment but so is therapy in groups and individually. Activities such as therapeutic writing, yoga, equine therapy and learning new skills to emotionally regulate and cope better are all important parts of someone getting back on track."
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Crikey! (ho/hum) 9 months ago
The last time I tried this, I crashed into a big ship just off the coast of the UK and got arrested.
Michael Fernandez 9 months ago
Can confirm; I’ve lived near the beach for 30 years, and at least once a week I walk along it just to reset to factory settings.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
I like this idea, but the beach is a 2-bus journey, 2 hours away. And I don't want to go on my own.
CK 9 months ago
Restoring to factory settings only cures mental illness if the mental illness wasn't part of the factory settings to begin with.
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Breadcrumb. 9 months ago
And even in the 80s a small town nobody could afford a basic starter home.
superfluous 9 months ago
I don't remember it that way. I recall a recession at the start of the 80s. Jobs were hard to find. Then Reaganomics and trickle down. I didn't buy a house until mid 90s when I was almost 30, and even then I bought it with my parents. Interest rates were 8%, iirc. Where did you get the idea a nobody could afford a starter home in the 80s?
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Unlike a medical hospital, a psychiatric hospital, ward or clinic, is dedicated solely to mental healthcare. There are teams of specialists that work with patients to help them to manage their mental health. Often, those admitted will stay for a few weeks or even months in serious cases.
We asked Axcell what someone should expect if or when they are admitted to a psychiatric hospital... "The first part is assessing," he told us. "Helping them to settle and stabilise. Patients are often very unstable in admission. They'll have sessions with a doctor, nurse, therapist, and psychiatrist."
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Gémeaux jumeaux 9 months ago
Reminds of a great Ani diFranco lyric, "Quick, somebody call the girl police, and, and file a report"
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 9 months ago
I feel like this would get a genre of people to go into there
Marlene Ricker 9 months ago
Scariest sigh I've seen in a long time! (I'm an old lady. Give me a break!)
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Enlee Jones 9 months ago
Me waking up to another f*****g day: "Well, these fresh hells aren't going face themselves....."
VampiressCrow 9 months ago
D**n. I often say, "Morning, sunshine! ". Can you tell what I am rally thinking?
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TheGayUmbrella 9 months ago
You're right, violence isn't the answer. It's the question. And the answer is YES
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
To people who say "Violence is never the answer", I challenge them to put people like Hitler, Stalin, Caracalla and Vlad the Impaler in a circle with Neville Chamberlain, Dr. Jonas Salk, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fred Rogers, have them all clap hands and sing kumbaya and see if anything gets resolved. I would add trump but I think he's too stupid to know the lyrics to kumbaya.
Niki 9 months ago
*Flips book to section on the Hapsburgs.* Here, look this over. It's ugly, but you'll really feel beautiful by the end.
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
To be fair to the Habsburgs, large chunks of their empire was gathered peacefully though alliance and marriage. "Tu felix Austria nube", right?
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9 months ago
This needs to be higher. There is a HUGE difference in advocating for or wanting violence and recognizing that violence is where this is all headed.
angelmomoffour62 9 months ago
The violence I have seen and heard about seem to cause more violence...
Naturally, many people are scared or hesitant to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. "People with mental health conditions can fear being away from their usual environment and routines, or not having total control over their daily lives for the time they are an inpatient," notes carehome.co.uk. "Others may be nervous about the other inpatients, while many older people are still influenced by the stigma of the old asylums and sanitoriums."
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The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
It manufactures insecurity that masquerades as confidence, bravado, and braggadocio.
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It's important to remember the psychiatric hospitals are meant to be safe spaces, which are there to help you heal and get better. "Your mental health is so important and there is help and support available for you," said a former psych patient known as Lucy.
"There are teams of professionals out there who care deeply about you and want to ensure you are safe. If you are in crisis, please reach out to your GP as well as your local crisis team."
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Verena 9 months ago (edited)
Remember how WWII started? Hitler invented (better: ordered) the Gleiwitz incident, a radio station attacked by "Polish soldiers" (which were German SS). This was enough reason to invade Poland as retaliation. Putin and Trump are copying 1:1 from German history from 1932 onwards. (That incident is from 1939.)
El hefe 9 months ago
I've tried telling people this but as soon as I say anything about the orange t**d people stop listening and say I'm being alarmist.
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Scott Rackley 9 months ago
Where are the Canadians when you need the White House burnt down again?
Otto Katz 9 months ago
I know I'm late to the party, but I think this is a better representation. 67d40c7889...c7bec0.jpg 
Dd P 9 months ago
And that is exactly what Biden did! For 4 long years we suffered the extremists, the sympathizers, the money launderers, and such a trashy administration that they even took d***s into our capital building. THEY HAVE NO RESPECT!
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
My understanding is that the first use of the phrase in a political context was Rahm Emmanuel, though Saul Alinsky said pretty much the same thing in "Rules for Radicals" some time earlier.
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Daria 9 months ago
yes? at least another me somewhere in the parallel universe is having a blast with hers, all thanks to me :D
Christopher Dean 9 months ago
That makes you a very generous person in this universe.
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LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
I constantly ask myself what the hell I did in my previous life to have ended up with my current one.
Crikey! (ho/hum) 9 months ago
Winning at life doesn't mean that people stop kicking you. It just means that the boots get cleaner and more expensive.
Otto Katz 9 months ago
You know how you watch awards shows awards shows and the pretty young woman comes up for her award all crying and thanking everyone but 'especially Mom, who sacrificed everything to make sure I had the education I needed, who worked nights and weekends and made sure I made it to ballet classes and voice lessons and moved us out to LA and got me to auditions and sold her body so I could be here tonight!" Yeah. My mom said to me when I brought up wanting to go to college "The only reason you want to go to college is so you can get a husband!" So I went to work 2nd shift in a factory for 2 years til I couldn't take it anymore. thanks for the support, Mom.
Peter Bear 9 months ago
No, but I do occasionally wonder what a couple of the 'other me's' are doing. There have been a couple of major decision points in my life that I still wonder about from time to time.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I find comfort that somewhere, according to multiverse theory, there is a version of me that is confident, financially successful and looks like a young Robert Redford.
Lucy was admitted to a British psychiatric ward just before Christmas in 2020. She says it wasn't always easy but her stay definitely helped her. “I found some of the professionals within the crisis team to be wonderful, compassionate professionals who never make you feel like you are a burden," she told Care Homes.
"Don’t feel as though it is hopeless and not worth bothering with. If your mental illness has deteriorated, then it requires attention just as importantly as your physical health."
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Sue User 9 months ago
I have reached the point in my life where i look at this picture and go " nice plant stand".
justagirl 9 months ago
didn't notice...but that IS a nice plant stand. Huh.
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Iampenny 9 months ago
Me every single morning when I have to work, then I remember I have bills to pay...
Sue User 9 months ago
I took a sick day yesterday.. for mental health. So helpful.
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Marlene Ricker 9 months ago
I used to feel like this every day when I was working. Now that I'm retired, I wish I could go to work again!
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MyNameIsNotAPortent 9 months ago
Physicists wondering “do I really make a difference?” look at philosophy and smile.
XenoMurph 9 months ago
If a physicist explains his theory and no one is listening, does he really exist?
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Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
To be fair, the existentialists will tell you that the lack of meaning gives you freedom to create some meaning of your own, and nihilists will likely tell you not to bother.
Axcell tells Bored Panda each patient is different. Some complete their stay in the psych hospital and find themselves equipped enough to face the world outside. Others return for further treatment.
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Savannah Newman 9 months ago
How has everyone's dreams been lately? Vivid? Lucid at times? Layered with meaning and messages? Your not imagining it. Something big is coming, my friends.
Sky Render 9 months ago
In my dreams I see a prismatic nebula, with thousands upon millions of alien vessels emerging. That's one of the more tame things I see. But I've been having weird dreams like that for over 30 years now, so it's not really concerning me.
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Narelle Hussy 9 months ago
WOW I thought I was the only one in the Universe's line of Fire.. my brain is screaming 🗣 "REGULATORS MOUNT UP" (Young Guns🏇) 2 take that Universe down lol
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Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
My abyss has large green eyes, purrs like a big block V8 and loves to eat Fancy Feast.
Crikey! (ho/hum) 9 months ago
I have a theory that all of Hell is just a slightly pixelated mess filled with shouty extroverts who have no inner monologue. It is just a theory for now, but I am on the trail of a certain bat and will get back to you when I have answers.
Hoi-Polloi 8 months ago
Oh fer cryin out loud. Is even the abyss paranoid about the male gaze now?
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RobotMonkey God 9 months ago
....i reckon it would be just like heaven if you did.....
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I'm sorry, but hanging with Robert Smith might just be the Cure for my depression, at least for a little while.
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Sue User 9 months ago
"Suffer and you shall be rewarded" really need to go.
Load More Replies... kayteeisdabomb 9 months ago
Im drowning, i lost my mom to pancreatic cancer late january. My whole world is hell
S Bow 9 months ago
My deepest sympathy, I also recently lost my mom to cancer so I feel your shattering grief. We survive one breath, one minute, one hour at a time. There's nothing I can say that will help you bear the sorrow, so I'll just offer a silent internet hug. 🥺🫂
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Cuppa tea? 9 months ago
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows they learned how to swim.
Ece Cenker 9 months ago
Everything that you thought was drowning you just didn't know how to properly do it, leaving you panting with a dry and sore throat every time.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
"One great big festering neon distraction, I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied... Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim." - Tool, "Ǣnima", 1996.
Lilli Belisle 9 months ago
You know this is a dream. You can't surf with a lit cigarette!
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How 2 swim? Yeh like when you invite your neighbours over 2 have a pool party in your Sims game then take the ladders out and everybody drowns?? lol
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Jrog 9 months ago (edited)
btw, the image is from the 1979 movie "Island of the Fishmen" by Sergio Martino, a master of Italian B-movies and raunchy comedies. The girl in the photo is Barbara Bach, the wife of Beatles' Ringo Starr and former Bond girl (The spy who loved me, 1977)
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Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
We Americans live in a society of brain-dead morons who worship superstition while eschewing science and who idolize people who can throw and catch a ball over intellectual achievement. Rule by the lowest common denominator.
Phyzzi 9 months ago
Hah. As someone who can AND DOES talk about those things, and usually gets a look in response more like the one on the left of the picture than on the right, I don't think it's very nice to assume either of them are ugly but don't expect the level of intense listening portrayed on the right from anyone not looking out for their more immediate needs.
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Jrog 9 months ago
"Doomcrastinating" was right there, right there and you missed it.
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Upstaged75 9 months ago
As usual you're completely unhinged about a website that no one is forcing you to visit. Get a life dude.
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Space Invader 9 months ago
If people tell me I'm overthinking, I want to reply it's because too many people are underthinking...
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Doofnuts 9 months ago
Good one. Didn't catch that until you said something.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 months ago
I'm determined to be George from Men Behaving Badly, but apparently I'm more like Ben from My Family.
b s 9 months ago
No. It's the dude from Pentagram. Can't remember his name.
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Luke Branwen 9 months ago
At this point, I'd welcome an alien takeover with open arms. Even if they were that kind of tyrant aliens... could it be worse?
Owen 9 months ago
It can ALWAYS be worse. Do you know how many ways you can be tortured while being kept alive? It's... a lot.
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Vermonta 9 months ago
Be careful what you wish for, it might be the little grey guys
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 9 months ago (edited)
Honestly, I'd welcome with open arms the reality of becoming an alien's pet. At least I wouldn't have to worry about food, housing, healthcare, etc.
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Serial pacifist 9 months ago
It’s not surveillance state. It is also personal data download state, manipulation and misuse of personal data state and altering individual preferences and worldviews state…just sayin’
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
A state where too many allow just a few to think for them because it's easier and more convenient.
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BeesEelsAndPups 9 months ago
Not very comforting to imagine the hell that will make this all seem okay
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Motivated sloth 9 months ago
It does not look ok. It looks like the invasion is moments away and I don’t even have time to get drunk.
Peter Bear 9 months ago
History is a series of cycles, an 'endless waltz' as someone once said. The three beats of war, peace, and revolution are always the same with only minor variations. We have been at peace. Revolution is coming, and that will lead to war... but then there will be peace again.
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Luke Branwen 9 months ago
Look up "Eschatron 9000", there's a whole photoset. The woman is indeed pretty and the pics are the right kind of unhinged.
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Tobias Reaper 9 months ago
this is what follows you up the stairs at night when you go back to bed after having a pee
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PFD 9 months ago
Anyone else remember the Natural Law Party and their use of yogic flying to cut crime in Liverpool?
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Oh yes. How could one forget? Here's a news article about them: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/539235.stm "The party came to public attention through the practice of yogic flying - where people bounce across mats with their legs raised and crossed. It even forms the central plank of the international party's defence policy - based on an "invincible army of positivity" made up of 7,000 yogic flyers "radiating peace and harmony to the world". " 😳🤯
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Enlee Jones 9 months ago
This is what my dreams look like when I'm sick and drink too much NyQuil.
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VampiressCrow 9 months ago
Hm. Yeah. True. Been saying that phrase too often lately. Fml. Oi. *giggles* Continue on...
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Luke Branwen 9 months ago
I've read the book, and I got it as a question for my high school graduation exam ^^
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Peter Bear 9 months ago
Nothing matters; but knowing nothing matters. It's just life, so keep dancing through!
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VampiressCrow 9 months ago
If a computer told me this, I would go and hide underneath my blankets in bed. Woe is me.
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TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago
Oh please, everybody knows that secret societies always hide symbols and messages everywhere for Karen to find and post them on Facebook
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Kit Black 9 months ago
Huh... God - tortures Job to win a bet, sends bears to k**l kids for teasing a dude about his beard, insists women are to intended to serve men, is proudly anti-knowledge, fully supports slavery... Satan it is, then!
Peter Bear 9 months ago
Yeah, Old-Testament God was really kind of a jerk. His kid though... He had good sense and very practical advice. Pay your taxes, be nice to kids, help each other out, don't charge interest on loans... Might want to think about listening to it if you're gonna claim His name, just sayin'.
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Savannah Newman 9 months ago
That is where my mind went. Here is the data...redacted, redacted, redacted, matter of national security, redacted, redacted. OK, monsters, keep your secrets. We can still see you.
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superfluous 9 months ago
Just what I need - another sign telling me what to do. "Sign, sign Everywhere a sign"
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Cindy Brick 9 months ago
I should be feeling pathetic about this -- but I actually enjoyed these.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
First half good but then I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE! Just scrolled to the end. Too depressing.
Cindy Brick 9 months ago
I should be feeling pathetic about this -- but I actually enjoyed these.
Mary Peace 9 months ago
First half good but then I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE! Just scrolled to the end. Too depressing.
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