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This Instagram Page Is Dedicated To Memes That Should Probably Be Discussed With A Therapist (50 Pics)
An estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults had any anxiety disorder in the past year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Women and children are particularly susceptible to anxiety disorders as it affects 31.9% of adolescents between 13 and 18 years old.
Many of you reading this article right now likely have had anxiety at least once in your life, and many are still living with it on a daily basis. As hard as it may be, finding your comfort zone in little things may ease this unnerving feeling just a little bit.
This Instagram page “Anxiety Within” has set out on an educational mission to raise awareness on mental health by sharing anxiety-related memes that vary from painfully spot-on to absurdly funny. Below we wrapped up some of the best ones, so make sure to upvote the ones you like the most!
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and anxiety, don’t wait. Call the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Helpline: 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) for help and see the list of other crisis helplines.
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Birgit M 3 years ago
Yeah, that‘s me. Negative side effect: People think I‘m arrogant, unapproachable and intimidating.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I think playing football made me seem more sociable that I am but it was so much easier because technically you don't have to interact with anyone, just pass the ball.
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L 3 years ago
on the plus side folks with high functioning anxiety are great in emergencies. When it hits the fan we're like "right, this is what I was expecting all along, let's do this"
Poly Amorous 3 years ago
Yes and no. I have a plan, but so does everyone else. Imma just kidnap my friends in the group, put them in a safe place and take care of it on my own. No socialization needed
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Gwyn 3 years ago
I do this. I feel like I'm so anxious all the time but people always describe me as being calm!
Ash 3 years ago
I once had somebody tell me I was the most laid-back grad student they'd ever met! ...They had no idea that I was on anxiety meds at the time, and even I didn't know at that early date that I had undiagnosed PTSD... You really can't tell by looking at person if they're having mental health problems.
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Buren 3 years ago
You tried and you failed miserably, kid. Lesson is: never try. ~Homer Simpson~
Justme 3 years ago
Once, a dear friend reminded me that it’s totally okay to start something and not succeed or even finish it. My new favorite hobby is to start things. I love starting things. I’m so happy. And I couldn’t care less if I don’t finish or succeed! So - permission to you all to start something, just give it a try - you don’t have to do it well or even finish it!
Mia Black 3 years ago
Try it with simple Tasks. Tasks where the outcome would not be Bad if failed but good if succeed. If you ask yourself, "what is the worst that could happen.?" and the answer is "nothing" or "nothing i could not handle", you should probably try it. And when the outcome was not good but could be good, try it again, because nothing Bad happened. Maybe involve a friend. If you are stressed with being on time, tell the friend, then make a Date and try to be there on time. If you are not, the friend will still be there - maybe the tea has become cold but nothing Bad happened. of course it needs practise to get used to failures but little steps are Better than none. Keep ging. Congratulate yourself for Victorys and don't underestimate true friends. They will help you. Though, this is my Personal experience. Still failing but became more relaxed if so. It is Part of the way and nobody is or has to be perfect
Load More Replies... Michelle C 3 years ago
That was me in a nutshell for a very long time after I develop clinical anxiety as a teen! I am so grateful for proper treatment!
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Aisling Raye 3 years ago
Any therapist worth their salt has a therapist. Please run if yours doesn't.
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Bonnie Vannaman 3 years ago
I think that means you definitely won therapy.
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Aisling Raye 3 years ago
In my opinion, winning therapy is telling your therapist just enough so that they can help you but never so such all at once that they have you put on an involuntary hold.
Onion Cutting Ninja 3 years ago
shayne smith is hilarious he mostly operates on dry bar comedy 10/10 recommend
My O My 3 years ago
I tend to confuse therapists. 40 minutes of Me:"my live is actually all fine you know", Therapist: "Sooo I guess we're done then. Why exactly did you come here again?" Me: "No, wait! You see, I was standing next to these train tracks the other night
Agnes Jekyll 3 years ago
I told something in passing to my therapist, and she said it was the saddest thing I'd ever told her. I didn't even know it was sad.
Bluebrains 3 years ago
My therapist is an 87 year old woman who laughs at me. Love her to death tho :')
Anxiety disorders can affect people of virtually any age group. For school kids in particular, anxiety is often mistaken for something else like upset stomach, acting out, ADHD and even learning disorders, according to Child Mind Institute.
Speaking of school kids, it has to be noted that there are many different kinds of anxiety. That is one of the reasons it can be hard to detect in the classroom. According to neurologist Ken Schuster, PsyD, what they all have in common is that anxiety “tends to lock up the brain” and in turn make school very hard for anxious kids.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
It's always a revelation when your normal becomes an "are you okay" from other people. lol
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
I casually inserted the fact that i sustained neurological damage/disfiguring damage from when my father threw me from a 2nd story window to justify why i forgot to bring food for lunch as a funny little tale and now people think i grew up in a hell house.
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago (edited)
*spits out water* What father would throw their kid from a second story window?
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Superninjatiger 3 years ago
I hate how sometimes trauma harden you so much that when people tell things they've gone through you just feel: oh okay... What do you want to eat today? Like you know you should feel with them because its bad and something that effect them but you just can't feel sympathy due to being so used to messed up sh*t that it doesn't even face you. And that makes you feel horrible because you should care and react, right?
Casey Payne 3 years ago
That's happened a few times for me. I will tell a 'relatable' story and everyone is just quiet. They don't even comment or ask questions. It's only after I have said it do I realize just how weird and strange some of my experiences actually are. More recently during the quarantine after re-reading my journals from my twenties that I sit there and stare at something I wrote, remembering what caused me to write it and then I am WTF? I mentioned the event to some coworkers because I thought it was interesting, but they said they really didn't want to know anymore. So now I'm trying to find out what happened to me back then. How do you investigate your own backstory?
Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 3 years ago
I reread my dream journals and laugh-- I dreamt once that I was walking down my street, but it was just a museum exhibit about my street, and when I got to my house, it was the museum cafe. Other than that, I think I'm too young to investigate my backstory :)
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ewa 3 years ago
My granny used to tell childhood stories about my mom that nearly made me cry... she would wrap the vacuum around the two year old because she was desperately afraid of the thing. While my mom did not move my gran could do her housework "in peace" - or when my mom was like five, she went playing outside (German city with lots of back areas) when gran called her for lunch she would not come, and when she finally arrived gran would grab her, push her in the bedroom, lock the door - (because the grandfather would try to intervene) and punish her with a cloth hanger. "She never came back late for lunch" was always her last sentence. And everybody laughed. Except me.
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SCP 4666 3 years ago
His username looks like one of those fancy written names, like Yuneeq or Ptoughnee
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Lol i sleep around 5 or 6 hours a day, maximum, and yet i am plagued with fatalistic thoughts, honestly i got to a point that i don't believe that anything Will Turn out ok for me, Im mostly wrong, and i know its all in my head, but i still do it, só no, sleep hás nothing to do with that.
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
'Sleep is a sign of depression' doesn't mean 'no sleep is a sign of no depression'. You can be depressed and not sleep excessively. And I hope you get the help you need.
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Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
Let me escape into the Void. It's nice there, and I don't have any responsibilities.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
If left alone to sleep, I can go for uninterrupted 12-13h. No, I'm not a toddler, nor a cat. Not depressed, most of all. It takes more to diagnose depression than sleep rhythms.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Ridiculous - sleep in whatever form is the bodies and brains way of recharging themselves. When I was a very, very stressed Chef many years ago, I would regularly get by on 5 hours sleep a night, but on my rare days off would quite happily crash for up to 16 hours, get up, eat, go to the pub, meet friends etc, then go back to the mental regime for the next 5 or 6 days. It nearly killed me - 2 heart attacks and a mental breakdown - but not caused through lack of sleep.
Bored Panda reached out to Claire E. Cameron, an associate professor of learning and instruction at University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, to find out more about young sufferers of anxiety and ways to help it.
According to Cameron, there is still a lot of stigma when it comes to talking about mental health. “Teachers should learn to listen to youth in a non-judgmental way and help them work with a school counselor or other trusted adult, if the need is beyond the teacher’s training level.”
Moreover, “Teachers can also incorporate social-emotional learning into their teaching and need to model healthy self-care such as getting enough sleep, eating nutritious food, and practicing mindfulness. Re-focusing students on their strengths and assets is critical,” Cameron added.
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Ola Polowczyk 3 years ago
I saw this one so many times. I laugh out loud every time I see it. One of my favourite posts on the internet 😂
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indiecognition 3 years ago
Basically the same thing happens when it's bedtime but the anxiety kicks aside the sleepiness and dances its way into my brain
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
Me every night when I'm trying to go to sleep at a decent time.
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Lou Cam 3 years ago
Yes! I need to wake up because I'm trying to work but I spent half the night thinking about that conversation with my boss 10 years ago.I drink a 2 litre bottle of Pepsi max but now my heart is about to explode, my hands are shaking and I still can't type/speak a coherent sentence.
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Monday 3 years ago
"Just act normal...you're fine" <--- me to myself as I walk through the security scanners knowing full well I didn't steal anything.
Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago (edited)
my brain: but what if you did by accident without realizing it???
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xolitaire 3 years ago
I've had a store employee follow me through the entire store and literally grab me near the exit and accuse me of stealing. I panicked and told her that I hadn't found what I was looking for and wanted to leave without buying anything. Apparently that was highly suspicious of me and warranted dragging me around like the "thief" I was. Shopping hasn't been very fun since then
너는너무예뻐요!!!! 3 years ago
When your parents say they need your phone and you're nervous, even though you have absolutely nothing to hide
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
I get that when I walk into a store to look for something and they don't have it. While walking out suddenly, I get this feeling like I'm store robbery suspect #1 just waiting for someone to try to grab me.
Most importantly, helping youth to identify the ideas they feel good about and making them feel good is key in easing early anxiety in school children. Cameron says it can be anything from activities they enjoy doing, like sports or theater, to volunteering (not going on their phones). “And then spending as much of their time and attention on those things,” the professor noted.
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Its even worst when things are actually going decently in your life, but you wake up everyday with an overwelming felling of lost, and you end up spending 15 or 16 hours a day thinking what Will you do if what ever is your paranóia today happens, even though there is no reason what só ever to make you believe that it Will happen. Its a very very " fun " felling.......
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
That is severe anxiety, and you need to see someone before it becomes full blown, crippling depression. I hope you're getting help.
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Michelle C 3 years ago
I’ve heard it say that those of us who have clinical anxiety tend to be really calm and crises because we have mentally prepared ourselves for crises for long enough that real crises don’t faze us because we sort of expected them!
Janis Wise 3 years ago
When things go okay for a bit my eyes narrow & I become super vigilant because I know the universe is planning a sneak attack. Lull me into thinking this is normal then hit me with its best shot. Two years ago my 42 year old son had a massive stroke & is now disabled & I’m worried another will take him from me. That was a bit bitchy of the universe seeing as how two years before that I woke up to find the love of my life, my husband of 35 years, dead beside me in bed. Between those, my daddy died on Xmas Eve while I held his hand. Momma six years earlier. Stay vigilant my friends.
sturmwesen 3 years ago
When you mentally get he popcorn to watch unfold all the drama you know is coming...
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#12
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Same. I have tons of work to do, so naturally I'm browsing the internet. No use stressing myself out. ;)
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Deborah B 3 years ago
I stress and procrastinate for three days before making one phonecall. I *know* that the "need to do this" period is usually more stressful than actually doing the thing, but procrastinate anyway.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I just did that exact thing! I've needed to call my doctor for a new prescription for weeks now. I finally did it today because I'm about to run out of it completely. I've been stressing about making the call more than running out of my meds. Also, I've needed to complete something at work since last week, but I just couldn't manage to take care of it until today - before I got in trouble for not doing it! Why can't my brain just be normal? ;)
Load More Replies... BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
hence why my room looks like a goddamn warzone and I sleep on the couch
DumYum 3 years ago
Hence why my room is neat as a pin because I clean when I procrastinate doing other things.
Load More Replies... Pjerrot 3 years ago
Me ; I have meeting in 2 hours,Lots of time to clean to up here & then shower without stressing…. Brain ; Ah,Let’s sit for juuuust 5 min. Me ; 1 1/2 Hour later Running around like Crazy,trying to put some water in the head & put close On!! And Promise My Self NOT to let the Devil Brain Over Power Me Again ( And AgainAgain,Again….. )!!!!!
Pam 3 years ago
Yes ! I do the exact same thing!! I know I’m going through depression and anxiety, actually taking meds for them. Since the death of my husband, my depression is much worse understandably. I’m learning so much from this forum. Like fighting myself to get out of bed to get somewhere on time. I find it a weird side effect to my ailment.
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Our culture tends to value people’s outward appearance and achievements, the professor argues. “Yet where human beings find meaning is in strong healthy relationships and doing work (including academic work) that contributes to the community and to a sense of greater good.”
According to the professor, teachers can involve students in service learning projects to help students connect what they are learning in school to the outside world.
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L 3 years ago
it is true, but when your brain goes into fight or flight when absolutely nothing worthy of stress is happening, that's a problematic thing for a brain to do.
Load More Replies... Deborah B 3 years ago
Brain "Let's rehearse stressful and scary situations so we know what to do when we see a saber-tooth lion." *cues up nightmare of taking final exam in a course we forgot to attend, ever.*
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
I routinely have dreams where I'm either late for class, can't find the room or can't remember what class I'm supposed to go to next. Every time I wake up thinking WTF because I haven't been in school since 2003.
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TheElderNom 3 years ago
My former therapist talked about this a lot too. We have stone age brains and they do not always like the modern world. A lot of the way they try to keep us alive, like fear/anxiety is counterproductive to modern society.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Nothing is right in my left brain, nothing is left in my right brain.
Orange Is Aging 3 years ago
*me to my brain* “Hey Brian, you like being all quirky and different, why not try being happy? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO? OH I SEE SO IT DOESNT WORK FOR YOU IS THAT WHAT YOU JUST SAID TO ME? ITS TO MUCH WORK!?!!!?!!???!!??! I feel u buddy let’s go take a nap” *AND SCENE*
Pamela Worthington-Smack 3 years ago
Natural selection operates on species. The characteristics of the individual are significant only so much as the effect the survival of the species.. There's no reason the process which created us shouldn't create miserable individuals who destroy themselves, provided they reproduce before doing so. ¶ Such survival characteristics are defined by a given environment. It's perfectly possible for the whole process to produce a species that's wildly successful in an environment of eight thousand individuals, but doomed to self-extinction with eight billion. ¶ Inasmuch as it implies advancement, evolution is a misnomer . There is no advancement, only change. Natural selection simply wanders. There is no progress, direction, or goal. It keeps on keeping on. Humans aren’t the pinnacle of some intentional process. To believe otherwise is to have absurd expectations for our variety of sad ape, and to live in continual disappointment.
Cara G 3 years ago
Your third paragraph is what really underscores the point being made in this one. It's very easy to conflate evolution with progress when, in practicality, it only means change. But it *is* easier to understand the distinction between progress and change, as they are not necessarily the same thing. If it were to be argued that there is a goal of the evolutionary system, it would only be survival. That's all evolution seeks out.
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Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
I need to show this that one person who tells me to just "be happy" as if it was the easiest thing on earth :)
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I don't even pretend anymore. I just sit in a corner and answer everyone sarcastically.
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Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
When my husband (the extrovert) wants to go to a party and I have to be sociable for all of five minutes.
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Anonymous 3 years ago
I thought I was the only one.... But it makes me feel a bit normal to see the number of likes. I'm not doing so good at the moment but I will be there one day.
Penny Kemper 3 years ago
In my mid 20 I did this... went over ever possible out come trying to make a decision ... it was horrible. I realized I could keep doing that. I also realized any decision could have bad consequences. So I decided it did matter, I would deal with anything that happened (good or bad). Never had this type of anxiety again. I feel like I gave myself the power to make mistakes and fix them, or something like that.
Ken Schuster, PsyD, who was a former teacher, told Child Mind Institute that you could see it in a child’s behavior that they were having anxiety issues. “Back when I was teaching, I would notice that when I had to call on someone, or had to figure out whose turn it was to speak, it was like the anxious kid always tended to disappear.”
“The eager child is making eye contact, they’re giving you some kind of physical presence in the room like ‘Call on me, call on me!’”
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Cat 3 years ago
"If you're reading this, you're too close and making me anxious already " <=== this should be added too
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
I just avoid driving most multilane roads and highways so I don't have to anxiously merge. Call it taking the scenic route.
mark glass 3 years ago
I'm usually considerate in these situations, but does that sign make anyone else want to deny the merge just to pass the car to see if the driver is really crying?
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Thomas E S Thomas 3 years ago
Try spending time in the Reference section of your local library. Pick up a nice quiet book, go sit on one of their almost comfy couches, and while your time away in another world for a few hours. You could even turn off your mobile for a while.
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Olga Aftyka 3 years ago
Me, and make it one day, cause it's only like 11-12 hours, or at leats, it used to take that!
Potater tot 3 years ago
SAME! I READ THE ENTIRE DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE SERIES IN 3 DAYS - that’s like 2100 pages
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
I read the last Harry Potter in 7 hours (including getting kids up and off to school). Still read voraciously but not like that
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
As I've gotten older, and now that I'm a Librarian, I've actually been reading most of my books on my phone or my kindle. I love physical books, but sometimes the words blur together and I find I can't read as well as I used to. When it's condensed down on a Kindle, where it has a limited amount of space per page, I find it easier for my mind to focus on the written word.
Michelle Thiel 3 years ago
I love that Kindle allows you to put more space between the lines of text. That really helps me. And the larger font.
Load More Replies... TheElderNom 3 years ago
I read the sixth Harry Potter book in a day, a full day but still, now I read a chapter and my brain is done.
Shelley DuVal 3 years ago
I still use books as a means of escape, although sometimes now its reading lots of unimportant stuff on the internet.
Amanda Bubier 3 years ago
I guess it’s technically not the same brain. The human brain isn’t fully developed until you are in your mid-twenties. So basically your brain has changed significantly since middle school.
Fricsmom 3 years ago
An article on childhood trauma suggested copious reading as a child/teen is a sign of severe trauma. Your brain is trying to protect you from the consequences of the trauma so you read incessantly. My family jokes how I read 4 or 5 books a week. After I started therapy and faced some of the effects of trauma I don’t read nearly as much. My brain doesn’t have to constantly ‘hide’ the pain.
Chris H 3 years ago
Given that all the cells in your body are constantly replaced, and even your brain cells, though not as obviously, swap out all their components regularly... it isn't the same brain. You are a clone with that persons memories, in a sense.
However, when kids are anxious about answering questions in class, they act the opposite. “They’re going to break eye contact, they might look down, they might start writing something even though they’re not really writing something. They’re trying to break the connection with the teacher in order to avoid what’s making them feel anxious,” Schuster explained.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I only realized this when a close friend pointed it out, that I act differently with different people. So I told him that's because I want them to feel comfortable and he was like "or is it for them to like you?" Lol
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
I feel comfortable when other people like me. Who doesn’t?
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
My son has a shirt that says Always be yourself, unless you can be a dragon, then be a dragon. I think I should have one that says Always be yourself, unless that causes other people to want to talk to you, then just stay inside.
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I have different vocal tics and patterns for different types of people. If I'm with my goth friends, it's a deeper, more grungy voice. If I'm around coworkers or new people, it's more of a bubbly approachable voice. If I'm talking to that weird shadow in the corner that keeps me company, it's my normal voice that's a little nasally and kinda pathetic.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
All you can do is make yourself happy. Others will either like it or not. If not, not your problem
Huntshroom 3 years ago
When half of the people know I’m gay an eighth know I’m trans and the other half thinks I’m cishet
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
Not cleaning as I go gives me anxiety. Because a big mess is more daunting than a few small ones. Which is why I hate when my mother cooks. She destroys the kitchen and leaves it until after the meal. (Which I then have to clean up) Makes me nuts!
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Not good if you're a Chef ..... Been there for about a thousand years and have met far too many who don't get this maxim ; Which is why they were always the last to leave the Kitchen .....
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Thida Yang 3 years ago
At first I chuckled, but how sad :/ im.going to make it a personal goal to compliment anyone who looks even remotely down
crazy_stupid 3 years ago
Good on you Thida, as someone who suffers with depression, you have no idea what a positive impact that would have.
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love u 3 years ago
random stranger: I like your shirt Me: *wears that shirt as often as possible now*
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
It was me, I told you that. You looked fabulous in it
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
I'm holding on to a compliment I got 35 years ago that wasn't even told to my face, but rather to my friend, who told me.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Just FYI - those salt lamps can be toxic for cats. (Sorry to be a downer)
BasedWang12.4 3 years ago
I know this isn't what this entry was about but JIC. Make sure your cats (and dogs and Im sure other animals) aren't licking salt lamps. They can become kinda addicted like how our brain works with salt and it CAN lead to salt toxicity. Just sayin, keep an eye out
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I can't remember any compliments being given to me. I only remember being called hideous a while back.
Bananananananana 3 years ago
I love your pfp, the colors are great and the stripes in the horns make them look so cool
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Laugh or not 3 years ago
Nice sentiment. But in real life those salt lamps can be deadly to cats: they lick them and their kidneys can't handle so much salt. Please be careful with your kitties (but keep thinking about the compliments you received, they are good for you).
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Richard Campbell 3 years ago
It’s called a mental health day, but very few employers recognize or honor the practice. At least in N America
Marley Marl 3 years ago
It depends on where you work in America. My job recognizes it.
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Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I just say I'm sick. I'm sick in the head or sick in the heart. As far as they're concerned, I'm simply sick.
Harlan Bleiler 3 years ago
As a machinist in US I would be laughed at if I took a mental health day. I get eye rolls when I call out cuz I’m sick or my daughter is sick. A joke. So if I need mental health day or 2 I just say sick or purely… I won’t be in today. They won’t control me
Niki 3 years ago
Just so everyone knows: Americans CAN get intermittent leave for depression and/or anxiety under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or Family Medical Leave Act. I've had this, I was allowed to call off work 3x a month. You'll need to speak to HR and your doctor/therapist, which can seem overwhelming and scary when you're depressed, but it's worth it bc your brain needs to heal sometimes. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/keys-to-fmla-ada-compliance-for-mental-health-are-communication-flexibility.aspx
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
Probably a good thing we can't, or we'd never get out the door.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Yesterday was mental health day and we had to work as normal. No way I would work if I had to take care of my mental health.
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
We dressed in yellow and threw a lot of wet sponges at people - not sure how it was supposed to help, but there was a line of people throwing wet sponges so I did not question.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My old boss called in to get the day off work because he had just found a note from his fiancé, breaking up with him. Our manager, who is usually pretty good at giving time off had to say "we have no one to cover you, you need to go in". This fuelled him to go in and work extra hard, as an F-you.
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Lizard Queen 3 years ago
See I don't have anxiety ha I only worry about like 3 things Haha... haha... ha :(
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
Gawd, you know you're a TEFL teacher when you see this, and all you can think is, "should I ask my students what verb tenses these are?"... I need to get out more!
Pixie 3 years ago
I also worry about things that didn't happen... Like the idea of not having mobile phones exist in these times I *need* them (lockdown for example would have been hell)!
Pixie 3 years ago
Anyone else? Anyone I've told looks at me like I have 3 heads!
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Ange Marsden 3 years ago
Also everything that could happen and everything that couldn't possibly happen - but what if it did?
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
So people should ask me about being antisocial... Except, on second thought, maybe not.
Emma Kilcup 3 years ago
Ask me any questions about breathing, being a human, being alive, looking at a screen, having a family...
Pam 3 years ago
I never knew so many people had anxiety like I have. If I’m having anxiety about getting something done, and then I finally accomplish that goal, I just move on to the next anxiety filled thought… I keep hoping once I accomplish fixing that issue, I will have a break from my anxiety, but it never really goes away and just moves on to another thought.
Burnt Bagel 3 years ago
I believe then that I am an expert in Coors Light consumption. My momma told me I’d do good…
Lemaire 3 years ago
I read this two ways. 1) I've spent more than 10k hours anxious, thus I am an expert. 2) It takes 10k hours to become an expert thus: I am apparently ONLY an expert in A) Anxiety, and B) Emails (deleting, not writing). Such lack of meaningful expertise being a further source of anxiety.
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️ saturn the furry (she/they) 3 years ago
I will never wake up if I don’t have an alarm, I checked and was late to school 😬
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
*When you set your alarm clock and it shows how much time you'll have to sleep
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Someone rang in to the science program that is on a popular radio station every week, asking why this happens, as he found he was doing this every day for a week or more. The scientist (Dr Karl Kruszelnicki) said he didn't know, but there is evidence to show that some people just seem programed to do that.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I just don't wave back at all....has clearly made some people think I hated them in the past but it's better than waving and not being the intended wave-ee.
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Eline 3 years ago (edited)
Oh, thank you! May i have a big hug then? Please? ( edit: to all of you who sent me hugs, you are absolutely adorable. Come here, yup, everyone, group hug!)
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
We all need a genie who understands that we're a whole-áss project
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Did the genie just make this "all about you" gesture? Well, thanks a lot...
Emma Kilcup 3 years ago
Cheat the system and ask for all the wishes you've ever had in your life to be fulfilled, but only the good ones. Then ask for anything you want.
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Julie Bradley 3 years ago
I just want to eat chips and drink beer. Don't care where. As long as noone bothers me.
Robert Beveridge 3 years ago
Dumplings for me, thanks, but then if you think about it, dumplings are big stuffed noodles so
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Mike Sanchez 3 years ago
Did thriller start playing in anyone else's head when they saw this???
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WindySwede 3 years ago
And so, tricking my brain into thinking it really has been a crazy day. Therefore making it even worse :D
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Tamra V 3 years ago
Notice we never mention Gen X? We go to therapists, we work, we hold up the world. Rarely, do we post about it.
Eastendbird 3 years ago
Ah let them get on with hating on each other, Gen X will just keep on keeping on.
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Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
The generation before the Boomers = The Silent Generation The generation after the Boomers = The invisible generation (AKA Gen-X).
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Shhhh, don't remind them! At least we do not pop up in every second Bored Panda post as either responsible for ruining everybody's future or as permanently offended self centered snowflakes. I'd hate to know what kind of "personality" they would invent for us. I am so sick of this nonsense already...
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Aisling Raye 3 years ago
GenX with silent generation parents - we get to laugh at all of the memes without being a part of any of the memes. It's kind of a nice little sweet spot being left out of the boomer/millennial/genZ drama. We're all just sitting on the sidelines, eating our popcorn, and taking sh!t.
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
Typo - I obviously meant talking sh!t. My phone ruined that moment for me.
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Because they were raised to suppress, fit in and be as stoic as possible in order to be perceived as "normal".
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
Gen X here with boomer parents. Therapy was NOT an option - even when my body totally shut down and doctors advised it, I was less than a day out of over a month in hospital and my mum thinks what I need is a job to take my mind off it. She gets upset in an argument 20 years later and spends a few months with a therapist because, well that's different and is now back to complaining why today's youngsters are always going on about mental health. Otherwise she is nice and rational - but on therapy as crazy as an anti vaxer.
Seth 3 years ago
What I've learned from the comments: Gen X folks also need some of that therapy.
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Mimi777 3 years ago
This is why I find showers so stressful and avoid them sometimes. Gross I know but when my anxiety gets bad it just makes them worse. Because I have nothing to keep me occupied in there I have all these intrusive thoughts that take over. I tried listening to podcasts but I zone out so much when I listen to them.
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
SAME but my family is likE tHaT tRiPe Is RuInIng YoUr CrEaTivE bRain WELL GUESS WHAT. LOOKS LIKE IM DONE. I'M not meant to make s**t my entire life. IF I WANT TO i will. I AM MEANT TO BE HAPPY. javascript:void(0);
the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago (edited)
sorry for the weird thing at the end idk
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Ally O'Malley 3 years ago
I read with my tv on mute, then when I put the book down the volume goes right back up.
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Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
Ah but it’s because of that activity that our brains evolved an extremely strong stress response. Which is all fine and dandy when the stress is a bear and once you’re out of the situation your brain can slowly decompress, but not so good when stress is your constant state of being… So technically when you’re suffering from the stress of modern life you can blame your ancestors and evolution for it being so excruciating.
Irish woman abroad 3 years ago
The problem is that the bear incident would be an occasional thing, and afterwards your tribe would sit with you, and praise or comfort you, and give you time to wind down... Now, we have about 50 mini stressors just getting to work, and no time for a fireside wind-down (yes, I know I'm romanticising it, but you know what I mean). So we're constantly wound up like the Duracell bunny, with no way to run off steam and relax.
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Gemma jones 3 years ago
i had to go for a carvery with work and i was panicking i said to my dad i need to go to pub for a carvery with work can we go for a practice lol hadnt finished the sentence and he was starting the car lol
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Bracing for the downvotes but if this was a comment on any one of these anxiety posts along with the word snowflake it would be considered rude and insensitive.
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indiecognition 3 years ago
Why did I just walk into this room? What were we talking about? Where are my pants?
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Annalina Bruner 3 years ago
Ok, now it's getting terrifying how many of these I relate to even as a seventh grader
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
I do not sleep, I just worry in corpse pose until the alarm goes off.
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Lol amateur, my friends call me " the hermit " because i disapear for years at the time.
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Texaspoontappa 3 years ago
Me explaining that all the "conspiracies" have come true and there for my sheep friends now owe me an apology.
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Przemo 3 years ago
Maybe there is not enough time between breakdowns for longer holiday?
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Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
Everyone: "just breath" Me: thanks so much, that's working out great! (sarcasm)
Krystol Grayson 3 years ago
I have severe social/general anxiety, but somehow I can pull myself together for emergencies and then lose it later. It's the nicest thing mental illness has done to me.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Ex Chef here - 37 years in front of the tops / ovens ; most of my working career was spent managing mental amounts of stress which was mostly dealt with by industrial amounts of drugs - uppers, downers, in betweeners, Dope, Coke and Weed ; happy days, apart from the overdoses, suicides and heart attacks ...... Out of the madness now and would never advise anyone to go into catering.
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Gemma jones 3 years ago
OH THATS SO ME! Theyre like this is between you and me after they tell me but i have already forgotten lol
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I always tell people I'll forget as soon as they walk away. But I WILL remember every little bit of random, trivial information you give me and drop it when you least expect it.
Julie 3 years ago
I've always thought it strange what my brain will latch onto and choose to ignore. (Don't know who is down-voting these responses.)
Load More Replies... albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
This is exactly why some many people have entrusted me as a sounding board. I am not really good at discretion, just very good at forgetting. The really unfortunate part is also forgetting birthdays, anniversaries, wife's name....
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the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
yup. flashback to that time i was either insanely happy or really sad now everything is just okay and i'm wondering if this is just how it's gotta be
Load More Replies... albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
A bit of advise I read somewhere, perhaps even here on BP -- Seek contentment. Happiness is like a strong drug; its takes bigger & bigger doses over time until it becomes unacheivable
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
It's called hedonic adaptation. You always come back down to a stable baseline of happiness. The good(bad) thing about it is that it works for unhappiness too.
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Shelby Minchew 3 years ago
Well, I guess that'll be the best deal we ever get so we'll take it then.
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Eline 3 years ago
Well, i don't know who came with this idea of freaking stairs, but they clearly had no idea about the chaos in my head .
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
It's from the 1986 film Labyrinth, but was clearly inspired by the MC Escher lithrograph "Stairs" from 1953
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Trentin Quarantino 3 years ago
Is this insinuating that after dealing with the steps you discover that Jareth's package is the source of happiness? 🤣
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
As much as anxiety is problematic, it seems that that sensation is shared by most individuals as general state of being. I am thinking that our ancestors had anxiety in order to constantly be aware and ready to be killed by a giant ground sloth. let us try to find the evolutionary cause to anxiety and come to grips with it. Easier said than done but i am trying to be positive.
Local foodie 3 years ago
The steps to happiness are the inside of the f*****g millennium puzzle mate
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
Is that one of the "if you can't handle me when I'm at my worst...." thing? Ugh.
My O My 3 years ago
Nah, that's "if you can't handle me at my normal, how in earth should you handle me at my worst??!"
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With this meme, context is everything. If this meme was shown somewhere like reddit, then the joke could be referring to something inappropriate (if you know what I mean) instead of referring to mental health
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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 3 years ago
Me who's the opposite and relies on texting my friends 24/7
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
Me and my friends will say "I don't have enough spoons right now," translation: I literally can't do a single thing, be patient while I recharge.
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Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Which is why just sitting next to someone and saying nothing is wonderful.
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
Get used to it, we all become Squidwards as we age.. and not only by the looks!
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
How did this picture of me end up on BP?!? (I'm literally doing that exact thing right now)
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
Mine is now "is this shoulder pain because I slouch or a blood clot?"
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the shrimp whisperer 3 years ago
"life comes at you fast. drink water." - jordan benjamin (aka grandson)
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
Don't forget the coffee or the Monster. That always makes it so much better.
WindySwede 3 years ago
And some who say money can't buy happiness…!? This being the three most(?) important things to lay a foundation.
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Sometimes people seeking attention really, really need some attention 🧡
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Kobus Loots 3 years ago
Actually everybody that has ever lived with me can confirm that the moment I wake up I just scream and then get up to get my coffee
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
I refuse to have a "we need to talk" conversation by text or email. Face to face is harde4 but better
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Deborah B 3 years ago
Yup. Repression is how we cope. Once you open the cupboard, everything goes to smash, and you have to clean up the mess. If you're only just coping with today, it's hard to open up past traumas and deal with that too, even if in the long term you might be better for having done so.
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Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
I have the first part down, falling asleep is easy. Waking up rested and having a good day... not so much.
Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
I think I've had a total of 3 days I've felt that way ever in my adult life.
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Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
I open the fridge, stare inside for 2 minutes, don't pick anything, and close the fridge
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Eline 3 years ago
I must have been a sponge in another life. If someone i love is unhappy ,i'll keep their issues and pain with me.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Same here. I’m going to sound really old when I say this, but here I go. Keep pushing through it. Breathe. Pet a puppy. Find one thing. Doesn’t have to be beautiful, or amazing. I have a plant on my windowsill. When I water the plant, I take a drink myself. Eventually you’ll learn that everything need a little love. But you’re not the only one who has to give it to the world.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
Yeah, 59 here. Still failing spectacularly at adulting.
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T5n 3 years ago
Same here. If it is one of my few friends , I’ll respond almost immediately (once I ensure that I have the proper response). If it is a emotionally abusive person, I’ll wait a bit , but not too long so they don’t lash out. , but just enough that I can decrease my amount or required interaction with them.
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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
Me: *reveals some of the innermost cringes of my brain Therapist: "Lets go far a walk, I want to show you something" Walk is a hike to edge of volcano. Therapist: "EVERYONE is like the earth, deep under the surface a seething cauldron of turmoil, which will inevitably burst through. It is my job to help folks realise this and help them dissipate the pressures and avoid an eruption that with devastate everyone and everything around them. No one is so depraved or damaged that we cannot help them!" Me: *spills guts on very dark secret and desire. Therapist: * shoves me into volcano, takes out notebook and writes "ALMOST no one"
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago (edited)
Add my phone, switch and a mountain of plushies and that actually looks like bliss. Edit: Not forgetting my blanket and favourite pillow
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Chaya Herrebrugh-Wachtmeester 3 years ago
I hate this. Because with some mental health issues you are depressed for long periods of time. And all those "positivity only" people will drop you as soon as depression hits once again. But when they are depressed, you are the first person to go to, because you understand...
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SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Well, you have a cute username and please be patient with me, I'm trying to learn two other things about you so there's more to like, yeah? :-)
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urbibestie 3 years ago
i had my friends do this once..turned out they weren't my real friends.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Awh, I'm sorry to hear that. No one deserves those kind of "friends". That's why we are all Panda Family here *hugs*
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Blurryface 3 years ago
Usually when this happens to me, I have an impending panic attack. Might take a couple hours, or twenty minutes to kick in, but once it’s there, it’s a doozy. Happened to me tonight, as a matter of fact. So now I’m up on Bored Panda at 2 in the morning, because hey. Self care. :)
Deutschland Mädchen 3 years ago
panick attacks are the worst- I’m sending you a virtual hug and some nice tea 🍵
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
You can't control what others do, only your response to it.
Angela B 3 years ago (edited)
As someone with both anxiety amd depression ....... bwahahahahaaaaa. B.S. Tell THAT to my brain!
indiecognition 3 years ago
Sounds so simple until it's time to figure out how to actually do that
Lesley Christie 3 years ago
This is in the same league as its not what happens to you its how you respond to what happens to you. Just telling me that doesn't help!
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Booklover<3 3 years ago
Legitimately rn I'm trying to listen to my friend and instead paying attention to these.
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Lol, that nothing, imagine someone that gets "watery eyes " listening to f*****g folk metal sung in a dead language that you need to be a colege professor to understand ( Gaelic ).
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
I have a fun songs to sing that I listen to regardless. I have others but play the same one
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
Oh god I hate this feeling “I don’t know if I feel ok right now wow it’s loud just keep smiling wow it’s hard to think there’s a lot of people looking at me I feel itchy why is it so hot there’s a lot going on here OH S**T SOMEONE ASKED U A QUESTION why is the music so loud”
Mimi777 3 years ago
There’s this one restaurant I hate going to cause I get like a sensory overload and it makes me so anxious. It’s so loud, so many people talking, you can hear the kitchen making noise, Etc.
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Destiney Haddox 3 years ago
There's nothing wrong with stepping outside "for some air". We can all get overloaded and we can step away if we want. Nobody cares if you do, they're more concerned with themselves so just remove yourself and reset.
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Char-char 3 years ago
Cool. Also, Your username says we are now besties. Is this true? I need a bestie
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
Me when I first wake up: ugh I’m so going to bed early tonight, maybe as soon as I get home from work. Me at 2:00am that night on BP: 👀
Boudewijn van der Mik 3 years ago
And if you do it you will be clear awake 2 hours before the alarm. That time wil be spent on the internet and you'll be late for work anyway.
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Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
I get what you're saying, don't know why someone would down vote your comment.
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
As a former cashier, I used to find it so cute when people did this ☺️
FlatEarf 3 years ago
As a person with social anxiety, I find it the 18th most stressful thing of that interaction the 17 more stressful things involve: potential eye contact, speaking, people, my brain making up situations, and the words I don't control coming out of my mouth
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keighterz 3 years ago
As a cashier I stopped answering the “hey how you doing?” greeting cus I was pregnant and massively depressed and I hate that greeting because they’re not actually asking. But I had some people get legit upset that I didn’t give them an answer and a lot of people gave me weird looks when I wouldn’t respond.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
No lie, if I was trying to be friendly and asked a cashier that was checking me out “hello how are you?” and they straight up didn’t respond but kept scanning and bagging my groceries I might act a bit uncomfortable too, I wouldn’t know what to do and as a socially awkward human I would probably feel embarrassed myself 😅 (there’s certainly a time and place for your kind of response but it’s probably not while you’re at work interacting with customers. Sometimes the simple gesture of exchanging a handful of friendly pleasant words with a total stranger means more than the specific words themselves, if I’m making sense - instead of hearing a customer coldly and uncaringly say “how are you?” try to picture it as the customer saying *FRIENDLY NOISES!* You just gotta make some friendly noises right back, thats the point of the interaction between customer and employee, not to genuinely check on each others’ welfare. People/customers just want to buy their stuff and go home, don’t treat them rudely for trying to make the one mandatory interaction positive 🙂) but I understand where you’re coming from, it sucks that we don’t expect a genuine answer when we ask people “how are you?” But on that note - if no one has asked lately, how are you, genuine question/genuine answer? :)
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
I got to work this morning and the coffee machine was making weird noises instead of coffee so I just lay down in the middle of the floor. I can’t handle this kind of stress with the rest of the *gestures to everything*
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Kaid 3 years ago
I’m gonna go to court. I don’t know what for, but I’m either going to say this or ‘I felt like it.’.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
“I know you are but what am I?” is going to be a major part of my legal team’s defence
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Don't you wish you knew 3 years ago
Who keeps down voting your comments? They suck. I'll up vote the ones I see.
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3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
Me with the Avengers movies. Just can’t be arsed after watching The Tick (1994 and new version) and The Boys and Watchmen etc.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Those have nothing to do with the avengers movies. I'm confused
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DuchessDegu 3 years ago
I HATE people like that! "Oh I need to tell you something but I see you're busy so I just tell you when you're free" B***h, tell me now, or don't say that you need to tell me something later!
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
Hubby starts to say something then says nevermind. I make him tell me cause that drives me nuts
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Vanessa Richardson 3 years ago
But wait—rock bottom has a basement! What a time to be alive
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SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
*Pats back* There, there. I know the feeling so my shoulder is yours for as long as you need it.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
This is my sister! Mum gets fooled by it though and starts suggesting what she should order, when all she ever orders is a schnitzel (from the senior's menu if possible) with extra lemon.
Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago (edited)
I always order a burger with just ketchup and cheese on top :) my friends keep saying it’s gross and I should stop, but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. EDIT: I’m confused as to why I was downvoted, I’m not forcing you to try it. I’m just sharing how I relate to the meme, and it’s not hurting anyone so have a nice day 🙂
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
I need that (plus onions and fried onions and fried mushrooms and garlic and bacon and garlic mayo and Dijon and tomato and lettuce and jalapeños and lemon pepper and allllll the textures and flavoursss, I love food) 😍 but I do the same, can’t beat a good restaurant burger :) bonus points for good fries!
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Error 404 (He/They) 3 years ago
Me when I know no one will be home the next day meaning I'll finally have a happy introverted day :)
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Well for years it was overly excessive amounts of alcohol but now it's a handful of chocolate chips. Looking up!
Blurryface 3 years ago
Garlic bread. Oreos. Fries. Fruit juice (flavor doesn’t matter). Huge bowl of salad so I don’t feel like I’m trash. Marshmallows.
SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
Coffee, although I pretty much live off the caffeine most times.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Because sometimes people with depression (like me) get the munchies. Like how you sit down to watch TV and find yourself snacking endlessly on chips. It’s something that helps in a small way, plus, hey, you’re eating. :)
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K- THULU 3 years ago
Funny and relatable .... If it wasn't for that little voice in the back of my mind , whispering " see, your mental illness is a joke...."
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
or that little voice saying, "Are you not supposed to be working?"
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Anonymous 3 years ago
I'm just here on my period chewing ice and with a heating pad on my abdomen.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Aww. Hugs. It’ll be my turn in a few days, and I’m not looking forward to it.
Load More Replies... Richard Campbell 3 years ago
Well that makes me feel slightly less alone/freakish. Good post. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean society is any more empathetic to people who suffer like this.
Brian bell 3 years ago
Although if we were to take society and form it into kind of a hive mind, it would be a psychopath. So there is that...
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
I've been there, I might be going again later, who knows...? So in the meantime, hugs and back pats for all of you just trying to pick yourself out of bed and facing the day while suffering any form of burden. It's never easy, it never gets easier, but you willing to still stare it in the face is a feat to be proud of and I am proud of you :-)
John Bell 3 years ago
In me early 30s I was seeing a psychiatrist. After the first couple of sessions he says to me that he has had patients attempt suicide that had gone through less (I never have).
Pam 3 years ago
I’m glad you managed to get through your pain and not take your life.
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Eline 3 years ago
This post is relatable, in a funny way, indeed..and it helps, so thank you. Having a mental illness is hard. It breaks my heart to see how many people here are suffering. It's very hard for me too,my depression, OCD and anxiety won't leave me alone. I tried to take my own life, years ago, and my arms are full of scars. Healing scars, since i stop hurting me physically ( god it was so hard). But still. Dear pandas, hold on, don't give up. I'm sure your an amazing person, and braver than you think. Here, take my support, and i also give free hugs, full of kindness.
Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
I once had a therapist I just started with drop me for being too depressing to talk to.
Marina Rocha 3 years ago
These posts give me relief. I had the worst anxiety week in 8 years. I am much better now!
K- THULU 3 years ago
Funny and relatable .... If it wasn't for that little voice in the back of my mind , whispering " see, your mental illness is a joke...."
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
or that little voice saying, "Are you not supposed to be working?"
Load More Replies... Anonymous 3 years ago
I'm just here on my period chewing ice and with a heating pad on my abdomen.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Aww. Hugs. It’ll be my turn in a few days, and I’m not looking forward to it.
Load More Replies... Richard Campbell 3 years ago
Well that makes me feel slightly less alone/freakish. Good post. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean society is any more empathetic to people who suffer like this.
Brian bell 3 years ago
Although if we were to take society and form it into kind of a hive mind, it would be a psychopath. So there is that...
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 3 years ago
I've been there, I might be going again later, who knows...? So in the meantime, hugs and back pats for all of you just trying to pick yourself out of bed and facing the day while suffering any form of burden. It's never easy, it never gets easier, but you willing to still stare it in the face is a feat to be proud of and I am proud of you :-)
John Bell 3 years ago
In me early 30s I was seeing a psychiatrist. After the first couple of sessions he says to me that he has had patients attempt suicide that had gone through less (I never have).
Pam 3 years ago
I’m glad you managed to get through your pain and not take your life.
Load More Replies... Eline 3 years ago
This post is relatable, in a funny way, indeed..and it helps, so thank you. Having a mental illness is hard. It breaks my heart to see how many people here are suffering. It's very hard for me too,my depression, OCD and anxiety won't leave me alone. I tried to take my own life, years ago, and my arms are full of scars. Healing scars, since i stop hurting me physically ( god it was so hard). But still. Dear pandas, hold on, don't give up. I'm sure your an amazing person, and braver than you think. Here, take my support, and i also give free hugs, full of kindness.
Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
I once had a therapist I just started with drop me for being too depressing to talk to.
Marina Rocha 3 years ago
These posts give me relief. I had the worst anxiety week in 8 years. I am much better now!
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