I’m developing a memeset of really common criticisms I have with the psychiatric sector, having been through it a lot and having expressed a lot of these as concerns to my new therapist / psychiatrist.
Speaking of which I’m freshly in therapy after a long stint without! Yay!
I literally do this with some of my clients, usually the adolescent ones, and I encourage them to show me their favorite memes
Edit: I even have a saved memes folder for each diagnosis/symptom I treat
“Mom do I really need to go to the brainrot appointment today?”
Lmao
Edit: leaving myself a good review pretending to be a gen alpha client:
gary is such a skibidi that their rizztasticness is totally ohio and their sigma vibes are capping so id fanum tax them any day bc theyre a sleeper fire and their grind is ate
you know Ohio is bad, right?
Yeah ik lol. I think it’s funny to use those words wrong on purpose bc it makes kids cringe
Not just the kids… (though the reasons may differ)
Haha, that’s fair
Everybody knows Ohio is bad.
Oh, you meant the slang term
Can I get your dankest CPTSD and social anxanity memes, or do I need to be a client?
Idk that any of these could be considered dank, but they’re the dankest I’ve got for that category, plus my fav relevant tweet
Now about your health insurance…
Spicy and relatable, but It seems my card has declined.
If I said “mood” to most of these does that mean I should have stuck with therapy instead of self medicating and avoidance?
Hmmm. I’d say it depends on how well the drugs and avoidance is going
Mixed results but that wont stop me from trying.
That’s the spirit! With drugs and a can-do attitude, therapy would just be a waste of money
/avoids answering and smokes up
Yup, checks out lmao (I got CPTSD)
God, it’s so exhausting to constantly be paying attention to the smallest changes in people’s “energy”. It has probably made others annoyed with me more than anything else
I, a fully grown adult, have a folder of memes I wish I could show ever medical person who was or is ever involved in my care.
Often, especially being autistic, and even more so being in chronic pain, remembering all the things you need to say and getting them out without interruption or distraction can be impossible, I wish communicating to medical staff via memes were normalised. Please spread the word among your colleagues.
Exactly! Preciate the validation lol
Sure thing, you’re doing a good thing, and I genuinely hope to find (at least) a therapist one day who gets it in the same way.
Oh shit you’re the person who posted that wholesome message that I then bastardized. I was honestly disappointed that mine got more upvotes
Ha, you’re good, upvotes are just pixels on the internet. The more people saw that meme, the better.
True! I just meant I was disappointed that people were more likely to upvote hate than love, but it’s to be expected
Ha, I’ve only just now realised you changed the text (I honestly just scrolled past and assumed it was the same), and actually I can’t blame them… 😂
I think a combo of the kind one on top and the proactive one on the bottom would be perfect.
Shit.
| || || |_Tell me how this makes you feel
I’m at a loss
.:|:;
makes me want to floss my teeth
Has anybody actually had a therapist show an ink blot?
The intended psychoanalytic usage of them isn’t backed by strong evidence, so they’re rarely used these days.
I do use these joke ones with my clients sometimes though:
It can be a fun icebreaker and has the potential to start some good conversations
That looks like a fun time!
Can’t remember how many times for job admissions.
That would probably actually really get through to me
It’d be better to ask for the list of communities the person is subscribed to before the visit.
“show me your youtube recommendations”
I would sooner let them see my watch history. YouTube use to send me right wing shit until I installed a third party channel blocker.
oh wow that feels like a likely change to happen.
People love funis and funi pics do tend to be like that sometime while ink splotches are abstract art…
Memes are probably more used than rorschach tests nowadays, but that’s because the tests are outdated and compromised by everyone knowing about them. They are also dubiously useful to begin with, as they don’t completely avoid the issue of having the therapist guide the patient’s answers. Memes would be even more problematic in guiding answers.
Memes and social media already factor into studies, but I doubt they’ll ever be a therapeutic tool. They could never be up to date, and they often rely on complex cultural connections to generate their humor. At most, we’ll see funny comics or captioned images used, but they’d never be like wild internet memes.
They can also use vague AI-generated ‘meme’ and ask what memes do you see. But they will need to use older and dumber models, current ones make stuff too specific.
What I mean is something like this:
It do be like that sometimes.
It do be like that sometimes
It don’t sometimes though.
