‘They told her she is not capable of doing the job’: Judgmental parents fire au pair for taking depression and anxiety medication

Being an au pair sounds like an incredibly stressful job. You have to leave the country that you know and love to live with a random family and care for their children full-time. It sounds like being a foreign exchange student without being treated like a cool, fun novelty amongst your peers in this country.  …
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An Overthinker’s Almanac of 26 Anxiety Memes to Banish the Intrusive Thoughts

You know someone’s never actually had anxiety when they’re eager to tell you that the way that they curb their worries is by simply ‘not overthinking’. Not to water down other people’s experiences, but crippling anxiety can’t be solved with just a flick of the wrist and a wish upon a star. Meticulously anxious folks …
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30+ Mental Health Memes for Anyone Trying to Feel Better

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 …
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30 Countdown to Christmas Memes That Slowly Decrease in Sanity

It’s that time of year y’all. We’re popping the chocolates out of our advent calendars and doing last-minute Amazon orders for quick gifts. Santa’s elves are hard at work and so are we. It’s one of the busiest times of year for most folks, as work ramps up toward year-end and we’re making plans for …
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Mentally Ill Memes For Sad Boys With Unseasonal Depression

Like many of my fellow Gen Zers, I learned all about mental illness on the internet. Everything I learned about depression, anxiety, and suicidality was on Tumblr dot com during the cursed year of 2012. I should’ve known from the second I set my eyes on a Superwholockian blog that this was a platform populated …
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20+ Neurodivergent Memes for the Neurospicily Inclined

While many terrible things have happened in the past few years, one thing that has been somewhat promising is the rise in awareness of neurodivergence. Of course, this hasn’t been without controversy; many complain about this increased awareness of ADHD and autism as downplaying the very real negative impact they can have on peoples’ lives.  …
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40+ Self-Deprecating Memes for Mayhem Magnets Who Get a Lil Suss When Life is Going Great

People who have lived a life full of random dramas and ‘bad luck’ know that there’s nothing random or lucky about their existence. If you’re a mayhem magnet, life comes at you full force– all the time and without mercy. You’ve grown accustomed to a certain level of anxiety because of it, but that’s just how …
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An Overthinker’s Haunted Trunk of the Spookiest Anxiety Memes

An anxious person’s mind is like a spooky attic full of junk. It’s cluttered, most of the trinket boxes are probably haunted, and whysthatdollstaringatmelikethatagghhhh! For people that love spooky season (and all the things Halloween-time entails), ironically the main thing that gives us the heebie jeebies isn’t the scary decor, motion-activated pop-up mummies, or the …
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45 Hypochondriac Memes to Cure Any Ailment Found Through WebMD

It’s cold season again, which means what we’ve traded one seasonal pest for another. As someone who prefers summer mosquitos over the autumnal flu, I’d say that fall leaves are more heavily associated with rabbit-hole searches on WebMD instead of the classic ‘pumpkin spice latte’. For people who get sick easily, once the school bells …
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Lavender-Scented Anxiety Memes to Laugh About in Therapy (October 6, 2023)

They say that a sprig of lavender is enough to calm an anxious mind. Clearly, «they» have never met me because I could be roaming in a field of lavender bushes, doused in lavender extract, and munching on a lavender sandwich and STILL feel stressed out. Anxiety has a fun way of creeping deep into your …
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