Join the Fun!

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A little Elf Conscious 1 month ago

I do this!

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jjdubs W 1 month ago

Math checks out!

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As of 2024, the My Therapist Says Instagram page has over eight million followers. What started off as a group chat between four girlfriends has evolved into a supportive community with many laughs and even advice. The founders of the page, Nicole Argiris and sisters Lola, Gina, and Nora Tash, even wrote a book: "My Therapist Says: Advice You Should Probably (Not) Follow."

The girls describe their page as a place to share "original memes about struggles with anxiety, growing up in the social media generation, and figuring your life out in general." The core message they want to share with the world is that "No matter who you are, dealing with all the tribulations of life, you're never alone and never as 'crazy' as you think."

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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 month ago

Haha 🤣 I love this and can't wait to use it!

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Kaeda 1 month ago (edited)

Because morning sleep will soon be over and you must then face the psychotic nightmare that we call reality. And your brain knows.

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Settled for Infamy 1 month ago

Someone's living the dream

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The four friends, who all grew up in Toronto, Canada, have been in therapy for many years. In their group chat, they often would share advice with each other, starting with the phrase, "Well, my therapist said..." That's what inspired the name of the Instagram page.

"Our therapist, of course, said no such thing, but we thought that it legitimized the advice to the point where we would have to take it," Lola Tash said in an interview with The Daily Mail in 2020. "It was always with the best intentions that we were giving each other advice."

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Kaeda 1 month ago

Washing the clothes: 1 hour. Drying the clothes: 1 hour. Folding the clothes: 10-15 business days.

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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 month ago

🫶 "Christmas juice!"

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Rowan Kohler 1 month ago

Now this is where I’m totally in board with.

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The girls say their goal is to destigmatize mental health, "finding the humor in the mistakes their mental health journeys have led them on." And many experts agree that the more we talk about how we're not okay, the less stigma there is around it. Therapist and author Nicole Arzt echoes that sentiment, saying that even sharing memes can be a great way to open up about your struggles.

#10

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Shelby Moonheart 1 month ago

So true

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Shelli Aderman 1 month ago

Hasn’t it, though? 😉

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#12

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Rowan Kohler 1 month ago

I don’t yolo get outta here with tude. I’m jomo, the joy of missing out.

25points

"Mental health issues are often wrapped in shame," Arzt told Bored Panda. "That shame often says, 'I'm alone in this. Nobody else understands. Something is deeply wrong with me.' While memes don't exactly 'fix' that real pain, they can provide a sense of shared camaraderie. There's such a powerful validation in just knowing you're not alone and that your struggles are not solely yours."

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Ash 1 month ago

samesies

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David 1 month ago

I did that earlier this year and almost missed my flight. Day 1: Missed an international flight due to serious fatality accident shutting down the freeway for hours. Much time on phone with airline reps got me rescheduled for next day and nearly $1500 in extra fees waived. But with warning of don't miss next flight / can't do this twice. Day 2: I am at airport hours early, get my boarding pass and wait several hours at the gate. Close to flight time, still no agents at the desk. Found out they moved the flight to a different gate but didn't bother posting that at the first gate. Other gate close by - ran to it - made flight just in time.

50points

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Rowan Kohler 1 month ago

I picked up a ham sandwich wrong somehow and threw my back for a week.

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Arzt provides therapy sessions for mental health professionals. She even runs the Psychotherapy Memes Instagram account, so she's not a stranger to the ways the internet jokes around about their mental health. She says that humor can sometimes even be helpful during therapy sessions.

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Kaeda 1 month ago

9. "OmigoshIamsonothavingapanicattacknowww!"

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

I look forward to the day I can forget Donald Trump ever existed.

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Emma Bozarth 1 month ago

I've never seen anything more relatable in my life

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"Humor is a great way to build and maintain rapport. Therapy is a vulnerable process," Arzt explains. You're sharing some of your rawest stories and deepest pains with another person, and that can feel scary! Humor sometimes creates a necessary lightness amid all that heavy work."

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LunaKitty 1 month ago

Agree massively

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Howl's sleeping castle 1 month ago (edited)

Happened to me. They refused my sabbatical offer so I had to resign. My manager told me the HR will agree for sabbatical only under the condition that the employee is bedridden. Okay. Fine. Accept my resignation then.

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Kaeda 1 month ago

I want snacky snacks. 😢

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However, there's a time and place for humor in a therapy session. "At the same time, we want to be mindful of deflecting with humor," Nicole points out. "Humor shouldn't be used as a way to avoid feelings or emotional processing. This can perpetuate avoidance patterns."

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Daniel Baca 1 month ago

Logical prediction is a curse

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Beak Hookage 1 month ago

F**k, now I want ice cream.

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Ash 1 month ago

hurgle and durkle, if you will.

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Nicole also cautions against coping with mental health issues through jokes and memes. "Mental health issues are so serious and can be life-threatening," she reiterates. "There's nothing inherently funny about them. But, paradoxically, it can feel bold to choose to examine your greatest struggles and laugh a bit about them."

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Rowan Kohler 1 month ago

I own it. I did it, it was f*****g crazy. I regret nothing. Lol

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JimSteve 1 month ago

Surprise! They are!!

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Kaeda 1 month ago

Overcaffeinated sounds like a good way to go.

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Arzt also emphasizes the importance of community and connection when joking around with others. "If you can laugh with another person, that's even better," she told Bored Panda. "That connection matters, it's so important. It doesn't take away the pain. It just shifts some of the energy around in a way where the pain may not feel so isolating or debilitating."

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e gads 1 month ago

Don't drink and Prime

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Settled for Infamy 1 month ago

Ouch. A bit too close to home...

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Rowan Kohler 1 month ago

Four seems a bit excessive.

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So, Pandas, what do your therapists tell you? Do you have any ill-advised funny quips to share with us? Or maybe one of the memes on this list hit particularly close to home and elicited a belly laugh out of you? Don't be shy, and let us know in the comments!

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Angeemanangee 1 month ago

Apparently my only choice is that I can only run in slow motion

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Lowrider 56 1 month ago

Mine always involves cell phones that don't work.

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Mosh Gos 1 month ago

I realized recently that it feels like there's a lack of gravity, so when I run, I lift off the ground slightly so there's a little pause between each step. I've trained myself to bend my knees so that I'm pushing backwards and not down.

2points

Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 month ago

When I run in my dreams I can't seem to do it on just two legs....I always have to bend over and use my hands to run along w/ my legs, like an animal. It's so strange.

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Amy Manning 1 month ago

Oh my gosh, me too!! And somehow can only move one leg!

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Sweetie Dahling 1 month ago

Oh I can only run backwards! It's so interesting reading other people's stress dreams running

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Sue User 1 month ago

I return to high school and cant find my locker or return to college and realise i signed up for a class and forgot to go.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 month ago

Always college for me. I hate those dreams.

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Goldenrule 1 month ago

Or drive a car whose brakes don’t work, or find only filthy, overflowing toilets

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leendadll 1 month ago

I'm often trying to drive or brake and realize I'm in the back seat fir some reason. My dream toilets are filthy, overflowing, and have no privacy.

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Bec 1 month ago

Trapped in a weird staircase that I can't get out of

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Cathy 1 month ago (edited)

I lost a tooth the other day and it was filled with glitter and quite big. I was like "hey! This is not real!" But still didn't realize I was dreaming...

4points

Settled for Infamy 1 month ago

So true. I can dream of high school students in weird scenarios that I haven't seen for 30 years.

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leendadll 1 month ago

Most of background characters in dreams are friends from elementary school (I'm 61 and haven't seen any of those people since I was 14).

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HappyBink 1 month ago

Mine are always restrooms with like 30 stalls that are either occupied, or there is just a hole in the ground where the toilet should be. Sounds weird but I have these alllllll the time!😦

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NZCas 1 month ago

Mine is there are never any doors, or all the toilets are in one big room so there’s no privacy. And if there is a door it won’t lock and people keep coming in. So bizarre.

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Poppy 1 month ago

I actually have both these dreams. The high school one is particularly stressful as I don't have my time table and I don't know which class room I need to go to next and also I haven't done my homework

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AR 1 month ago

I’m not the only one with nightmares about losing my teeth?!

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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 month ago

Apparently it's very common, although not one I've ever had.

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Auntriarch 1 month ago

Not any more. Now my dreams are all about not being able to find a toilet

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Andrew Irish 1 month ago

I'm a trans guy in my 40s, I've had super short hair since I was 15 and my common nightmares are the usual teeth crumbling out and naked in front of people I want to like me. BUT just as often or at the same time is my hair is super long and scissors can't cut through it. It's horrifying lol.

3points

Kaeda 1 month ago

I choose teeth. Always teeth. High school was a big enough nightmare and I don't like the reruns.

3points

Lene 1 month ago

Mine is usually about having to pee and for some reason I just can't find the toilet or, if I find it, I can't actually go and sit on it. One time I found it and sat on it, but then the room became really little and sorta dark and then about 500 spiders came crawling down from the ceiling in their webs/strings. It was very not nice! (Fyi: Despite having all these toilet-dreams I haven't peed in bed since I was a little kid).

2points

leendadll 1 month ago

No peeing in bed, or even waking with a need to pee, but I had recurrent dreams that involved rain, ocean, a shower, and a pool. Always all four. Like, swimming in a pool xext to the ocean while it was raining and I was looking at someone using an outdoor shower...

1point

Alicia M 1 month ago

I had one where it was the latest trend to cut your head off and wear a designer bag over your stump. I was the only person in the world who had not done this yet, and I was being chased by an angry, headless mob.

2points

SleepSycho 1 month ago

Sounds like a black mirror episode. They say other people's dreams aren't Interesting but I find this one fascinating!

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Danielle 1 month ago

I have the teeth dream all the time but they don't fall all the way out, they are on sort of bungee cords.

2points

leendadll 1 month ago

That's new!

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SleepSycho 1 month ago (edited)

When it's not teeth or old job I can't seem seem to clock into or a phone that's not working it's transportation that doesn't work right, like a plane or train or car or bus where I can never seem to get to the destination

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Sinnsyk Jakte 1 month ago

My brain tried putting spiders in my nightmares last night, and it failed to get a rise out of me. I can /feel/ its panic as it tries to button-mash a way into unsettling me in a way that the real world isn't already.

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Mary Green 1 month ago

Felt

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Dragon mama 1 month ago

My best friend from (enter school year here) must (embarrass, betray, or abandon) me for a (just about anything)

1point

Settled for Infamy 1 month ago

Did that happen to you, sweet Dragon Mama? Mine are all centralised around characters that betrayed me. Decades later, same same, but different 🐉🫂

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SleepyVampire 1 month ago

Used to have those teeth dreams a lot. Now I dream that my fingernails are falling off. So that's fun.

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e gads 1 month ago

My dreams are always stress free, its the waking world that fills me with anxiaty

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María Hermida 3 weeks ago

Lose all my teeth. No doubts about it.

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Alien-Gal-19 1 month ago

My choice is like the whole world had a "Randomize" button and I mashed it then lived in the world that came out.

0points

The Shark Premium 1 month ago

Lately, my dreams keep having weird scenes of things breaking or getting lost, along with exploding birds and dead and dying whales being eaten by scavengers while turning the water to blood. I wonder if that means anything 🤔

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MirohLoome (he/she/they) 1 month ago

or lose your whole family in a fire tornado?? just curious as to your preferences

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Diane Robinson 1 month ago

Mine are the slow mo running, trying to scream and nothing comes out, trying to hit someone and it comes off as a tap kind of dreams. Except for 1 that's different. I'm trying to get away from someone/something and I'm able to fly. But I'm never able to get high enough to get out of reach. That's the worst one.

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GreggsCrazyPanda 1 month ago

Gotta love those marshmallow punches.... you feel like you put sooooo much effort into the punch but it lands like a feather on whipped cream. I had a dream I was trying to defend myself from someone/thing, (I don't recall) I remember winding up to punch "It" and woke up just in time to see my fist coming down on MY OWN FACE! I ended up splitting my lip. but usually in dreams I can't punch or scream.

0points

Occam's Chainsaw 1 month ago

I periodically have stress dreams about saving kittens. Not adopting them, but actually having to physically save dozens of kittens from danger--usually flooding or a natural disaster. There are always so many kittens.

0points