For a highly complex organ, the brain sure can be dumb. A couple of minorly bad things happen to you when you’re a kid, for example, and then you find yourself as an adult having to learn special breathing techniques because you can’t deal with the fact that somebody spoke to you in the wrong tone. I mean, what the heck? Good mental health is important, but maintaining it doesn’t always make a lot of sense. 

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t see people suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression at the rates that they do. However, we don’t live in a utopia. It’s not uncommon to be overwhelmed by negative emotions, as proven by the sheer amount of memes that revolve around the topic. They’re here to show that nobody is alone in this. They might not be a cure, but perhaps their relatable foibles can get you through the hard times.