‘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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Weekly Internet Roundup: Photoshopped Landings, Sydney Sweeney on ‘Hot Ones’, and Trauma Dumping on Elmo

Also: TikTok loses (some) music.

‘His mental state is FINISHED’: Guy blasts Drake song so loud it sets off car alarms in his neighborhood

If our responses to Elmo’s tweet are any indication, we’re not doing so hot. As a culture, as a society, we’re pretty down bad. And what do you do when you’re feeling in dire need of a little comfort… run to Cheezburger.com? Yes, absolutely. But right after that, you might be heading to Spotify to …
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‘We are tired’: Elmo asks the internet how they’re doing, the truth stings

Without a shadow of a doubt, life can be a bummer. Ever since Eve ate that godforsaken apple, no human being has been a stranger to stress and sadness.  For all the questionable sides to social media, one of its frequently exploited benefits is that it can be a great place to complain. If we …
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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+ Negative Nancy Memes For Sad Sacks Who Are Content With Being Bummed Out

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to fester in your own negative emotions. I know firsthand what it feels like to think negatively about myself around the clock. You have to work hard to feel positive and good about the world, but negative vibes come to us without even trying that …
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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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32 Memes For Merrily Rolling Along

The holiday weekend is over and it’s back to the grindstone of every day life. The first day back at work after a holiday is like getting on a horse. You might be a little rusty at first, and it takes some effort to hurl yourself over the saddle, but soon enough you’re trotting along …
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Depressed Memes For When You’re Feeling Sad During the Holidays

Don’t you hate it when you become the Charlie Brown of your friend group instead of the Linus, Lucy, or Snoopy? I would even tolerate being Pig Pen instead of moping around like young Chuck, but alas, that is not always the case. We kind of take it for granted that Charlie Brown is the …
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Feel-Bad Memes For When Your Emotions Are Out of Control

It’s totally normal to get into periods of life where you’re completely emotionally off the rails. I remember being a teenager and feeling on edge literally all the time, and I’m lucky that I’ve developed a foundation of some emotional stability. Unfortunately, you can’t be stable all the time, and my emotions have been all …
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