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Living in a more progressive society has shined a light on what was once an often-dismissed topic like mental health. It’s also allowed those struggling to find different coping methods, ultimately lessening their burdens.
Memes can sometimes be a source of quick laughs that uplift the spirits. That’s where platforms like the Existence Is Pain Instagram page come in. Its content doesn’t disappoint, touching on sensitive topics like anxiety and overthinking and presenting them lightheartedly.
We’ve picked out some of the best memes from the page, which we think you’ll enjoy. For those with mental struggles, hopefully these can make you smile today.
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Susie Elle 1 year ago (edited)
Or! Having to reread the page because the songs in my head got too loud.
Dzjaz 1 year ago
And ongoing. Not stopping. For days. Stopping you from sleeping.
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Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
And if it's a sad song, the lyrics didn't hurt you enough so you have to now restart the song.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I can't watch anything without interruptions in my head. Gee, that actor looks sooo familiar. Gotta look them up on IMDB and find out if I've seen something they were in. If I don't, I won't hear a thing because my brain keeps pestering me. Or, if I see something in a scene and wonder, would Amazon have that in stock? Should check right now before I forget.
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Vg9EYy4c0 it's a real thing
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Fyi it's a real vid, but not actually from a cassette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Vg9EYy4c0
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I think this is from the Obvious Plant Instagram account. They make a lot of very funny joke products like this.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Kid needs to make another tape explaining it to US christians because most of them don't really understand the meaning.
Many memes you’ll see here tackle serious issues like anxiety in jest. According to licensed therapist Theodora Blanchfield, memes enable people to make jokes about their condition because of their presentation.
In an article for Very Well Mind, Blanchfield mentioned a study suggesting that memes can help promote emotional regulation when dealing with harsher subjects like mental health.
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CK 1 year ago
This but unironically. People who don't emote like the stock photo models do have a hard time getting jobs.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
I could emote like the stock photo if it weren't for the d**g screening policy.
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If companies paid their employees an actual living wage for the area they are in, some decent benefits like health insurance and vacation days, that would certainly bring a smile to many employees. Heck, they might even be legitimately happy.
Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
Happy people aren't willing to be hired. They're happy. Unhappy people get hired. (T.T)
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Look, lady, I'm busy. There's got to be a dictionary in here someplace for you to figure it out on your own.
Human connection is a huge deal for everyone, especially those struggling with their mental health. Knowing that someone shares the same challenges as you do makes the burdens feel more bearable, at the very least.
As Blanchfield points out, memes build a connection between people through communal enjoyment and laughter. It also creates a “shared” language.
“Missing out on a meme won’t kill you, but having that shared language will help bring you closer,” she wrote.
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Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Love me some spicy, right up until it overwhelms all the other ingredients in life.
Seán Baron 1 year ago (edited)
But said in the way Sebastian did when talking about the hottest new club.
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Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
Some updating required : .... and everyone is sending a tiktok video.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
In fairness, Cicero wrote this briefly before Rome fell into dictatorship.
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Edit: "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is either making or sending Instagram reels."
Tiger 1 year ago
Or podcasts. I feel like everyone has a podcast now lmao
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Tempest 1 year ago
Add to that the stack of books bought months ago that are sitting on a desk untouched but definitely will be started on tomorrow… (I just started reading a new book today while another stays half read)
Tiger 1 year ago
My mum works at a library and often “rescues” books that are going to be disposed of for me. I have a huge stack of random history books, taco recipe books and children’s books about outer space to work through 😂 I love her.
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However, we can’t sweep the downsides under the rug. Some studies have suggested that memes may trivialize the realities of mental health struggles like depression by expressing them humorously.
Others may see it as a way of promoting ideas of self-harm, which have been on a steady rise over the recent years.
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Matt Du 1 year ago
Most of the UK have gates in major supermarkets, so you have to squeeze past people and trolleys at the checkouts/self serve. Which is made more fun when you realise we have made queuing an art form and those that even appear to circumvent our most holiest of traditions are looked down upon with distain. I am not joking, if you want to see what an angry mob with pitchforks and torches looks like, jump a queue in the UK
Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
Shake your head and mutter about not being able to find something
Nosirrow 1 year ago
In winter of 2020 I had a meeting and had time to kill before. Plus it was very cold and rainy. I went to a supermarket to warm up and bought nothing. Later I realised it was in the hours that supermarkets were open only for the elderly. Yikes, but also it was a dumb idea. For maybe 3 or 4 hours young people had to wait for no good reason.
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Jenna Kay 1 year ago
We are all dying, some of us are just getting there faster.
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Abdullah Abd Rahman 1 year ago
Damned if you , damned if you don't. Oh, what a meaningless existence....
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
What if I do it with regret? Like calling into work because I'm hungover and not really sick?
Leesa DeAndrea 11 months ago
Life. Whatever decision I make, it's the wrong one. Just can't win.
Ultimately, it’s all about finding the balance. For psychotherapist Dr. James Davies, it’s seeing memes for what they really are and taking them with a grain of salt.
“The true value of these memes is revealed through analyzing their social function, which is to communicate deep discontent,” Dr. Davies told Refinery29 in an interview.
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Unfortunately, no matter how much I don't want to do something that others like, peer pressure often makes me do it anyway :(
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Matt Du 1 year ago
I don't want this to sound depressing but I stay for my wife. I wouldn't bring children into my world and found someone that felt the same way. If she goes before me, it will be a very short time before I follow.
Now, we’d like to hear from you, readers. Do mental health memes help alleviate your struggles even slightly? Let us know in the comments!
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veryvenasaur 1 year ago
OMG on time I was sorting the miscellaneous bin in robotics and people kept dumping more stuff in it and I turned to my teacher and said, "I feel like Syphilis." I have not yet lived it down.
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rmandevi831 1 year ago
I'm sure that someone out there expects all these signs to read that way once you learn to strip away the lies of . And they'll still say that cleanliness is next to godliness.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Many people who talk quite a bit still manage to be absolutely mystifying.
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Tiger 1 year ago
Sisyphus is the guy from Greek legend who was doomed to push a heavy rock up a mountain all day, only for it to roll back down to the bottom once it reached near the top. Over and over again for all eternity. Sisyphus is so done with rocks for the day that when the bartender asks if he wants his whisky on the rocks (meaning over ice), he’s like “buddy I’ve had a long day” 😂
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Dawn Marie 1 year ago
I always got accused, growing up, that I didn't have the common sense that God gave to a snail. As an adult I have now been tested and I am ADD, severely clinical depressed, and abused by my father. I hope they now understand that my brain differed from theirs's.
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Seán Baron 1 year ago
When I was born, a great sadness went across the peoples. Oh no! They screamed. The bastard’s here! Well, thanks for that.
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MegDragon 1 year ago
I notice you’re wearing them shorter now but you had great ears that day
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Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
Oh this annoys me so much! My friends sometimes say I’m very relaxed considering my chronic health condition that I’ve just picked up in recent years. Nope, I am just too tired and fatigued to give a rat’s ařse about anything!
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Onahogar Emmanuel 1 year ago
Don't know if it's just me but I kinda dig them old days, just you, some buddy's and your horses, six shooters and lots of beer, chasing whatever catches your fancy
Cougar Allen 1 year ago
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." -J. Alfred Prufrock
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Lila Allen 1 year ago
I don't even want to waltz 3 times.. let alone minuet
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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
No, the word is definitely Feathered Dinosaur
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Caroline Overill 1 year ago
I’m a little bit smart I know stuff I just can’t remember any of it
Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
Not what they mean. Also, the current term, unless they have a formal diagnosis, is 'twice exceptional'.
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Janissary35680 1 year ago
🦈🎵🎶"Duunnn dunnn… duuuunnnn duun… duuunnnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn dunnnn"🎶🎵
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Rahul Pawa 1 year ago (edited)
Also get your TSH checked. Hypothyroid can cause feeling tired when you wake up.
Susical 1 year ago
Keyboardtek, it can actually be very complicated. These ideas are good for dealing with situational depression. But clinical depression is more serious & can't always be helped by such trite suggestions as "get a little sunshine and exercise." Seriously, if it were that easy none of us would be mentally ill.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
I was so tired ever since my pregnancy 4 years ago. Incidentally that's when I stopped caffeine. Only started on the caffeine again a few weeks ago and wow, I'm a new person in the morning. I have very low blood pressure and the caffeine helps
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Did that. Nothing was wromg. Im just permanently exhausted idk
Rahul Pawa 1 year ago (edited)
If your TSH is below 4, your primary care will likely tell you that's fine. But I strongly suggest that if it's above 2 (or below 1), you ask for a referral to an endocrinologist. That's what happened to me. TSH was 3.6, two doctors said don't worry about it. Finally got to an endo. He found I have hashimoto's (probably had it most of my life) and started me on thyroid meds with the goal of getting my TSH between 1 and 2. I started a month ago and I can feel a difference. I'm less tired in the morning and have more energy throughout the day.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I got an iron transfusion two weeks ago and I don't feel any less tired. Could just be my fibromyalgia (I already take all the vitamins) but that is frustrating because I am already doing all the things I'm supposed to make those symptoms better :(
Kalikima 1 year ago
Do you take specific vitamins for your fibro? I have that, and I have been taking vitamins supposedly for gastric bypass people (I had one 22 years ago) but they haven't helped, and my iron is still super low. Do they have special vitamins for fibromyalgia?
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I've seen tattooists provide a little therapy on the job more than once. It's really sweet, and especially when it's because someone's getting a memorial tattoo, like when I got one in honour of my dog.
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Abel 1 year ago
Antropomorphic cartoons that wear t-shirts and no pants are sus to me. Look at the goddamn Donald duck. It is an exhibicionist!
Lila Allen 1 year ago
I think it's poverty. Mickey got the pants and Donald got the shirt... and to be fair Pooh has to have access to his back so he can resew himself as needed
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Janissary35680 1 year ago
Voles. Don't forget the voles. And if they're fresh, a bat. No crickets, please. We have enough.
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"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
Trust me, you want me take a break from socializing. I'm not pleasant when I don't have a quiet break.
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char 1 year ago
used to suffer through lunches with my two best friends where they would spend the entire time talking about some video game I'd never played, and then I eventually learned that only one of them had actually played it and the other was just faking interest and lowkey bs-ing the whole time. mad respect for her tbh.
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Susical 1 year ago
Ray, I can see your frustration when people say that about issues they have power over. But there are situations we have no control over. Accepting that - even by saying "It is what it is" - can be helpful at those times.
Terri Rimmer 12 months ago
I'm so sick of people saying it is what it is. I like what George Lopez said: "But it could've been what it was."
Incognito11 1 year ago
I dunno Ray. For me saying it is what it is prompts me to take action. I can't change what's happening so I better deal with it now instead of dwelling on it or sitting around waiting for it to change on its own
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iseefractals 1 year ago
Which is only relevant so long as someone continues to remember that past. Everything has an expiration date. Humans will one days cease to exist, the sun will burn out, the solar system will be destroyed and all evidence will cease to be. As if it nothing even happened. Everything is temporary.
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Sarah Suelzle 1 year ago
It just never stops - everyone says it will get better but it never does.
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"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
Yeah... in my defense like many people I deal with very stupid people at work.
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Matt Du 1 year ago
I hate good days which sounds weird. I don't mind better days but good days lull you into a false sense of security, you venture out of your safe zone and BAM, think about your foolish actions while stand in a corner shaking and screaming at the wall, or curled on the floor crying. Now you can flog yourself for the next few days for thinking you deserved a good day.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
In 2024, DJT is going to be president again and NOTHING is going to be alright. Yeah I went there. Who's going to be the first one to downvote me and tell me to STFU about politics?
CK 1 year ago
There is still a lot we can and must do to help. Starting with taking personal risks, like procuring lifesaving abortions in states that forbid them, regardless of what the law says, even if it means facing the consequences.
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Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
Those two realities fit naturally and even helpfully together, as parents of teenagers may discover
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Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
I try to be tolerant person, but... there's a line, man. There's a LINE!
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Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
I just want to know why Sad Guy is so thoroughly Norwegian. Are y'all cats about to go mental and invade Britain? Again?
Ms. Mack 1 year ago
These are Klimt paintings. He was Austrian. No Austrian would invade... oh no.
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detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Reminds me of the time I lost like 3 hours of my Saturday watching youtube videos about Chris Chan.
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Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
"Barber, you're an artist. Let my head be your canvas." Later... "Hey, thanks for the nice buzz cut."
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FlamingZombies 1 year ago
One of Nietzsche's quotes is "God is dead". So if you read the upside down Pepsi can, it says is ded (is dead).
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
If you ever run into someone who is really into Nichie, run away. I've never met a nihilist who was not a complete POS.
Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
But Telemachus Rhade is such a nice guy on the Hallmark channel.
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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
My dad was the kindest person I ever knew. I strive to be just like him.
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Dawn Marie 1 year ago
BUT, do you have anxiety BECAUSE you like sandwiches? Maybe, as a very young child. you saw someone being murdered while you were eating a peanut better and jelly sandwich? Now that every time you eat a sandwich, your subconscious goes to fight or flight mode and that triggers your anxiety. No, I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV. I just have a vivid imagination and I am a writer.
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Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
Socrates: I'm not going to tell you the answers (I know them!), but I AM going to shred all your arguments and expose your poor reasoning until you slink away in shame.
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Susical 1 year ago
Lots of philosophy memes mixed in with the mental health ones. And some dumb comments from Pandas, making it sound like mental illness is a minor inconvenience that can be overcome with will power.
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
It really can't but I have a couple of tips that have helped me a lot. If you want to hear any just ask but I won't force unsolicited advice on you.
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Susical 1 year ago
Lots of philosophy memes mixed in with the mental health ones. And some dumb comments from Pandas, making it sound like mental illness is a minor inconvenience that can be overcome with will power.
veryvenasaur 1 year ago
It really can't but I have a couple of tips that have helped me a lot. If you want to hear any just ask but I won't force unsolicited advice on you.
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