I’d like to think that my therapist and I are best friends. Sure, my therapist might be named Doctor MeMyself&I, but that doesn’t mean I’m not getting valuable life advice from myself. But then again, when you’re a self-medicated, Google-searching, socially anxious individual, that means that your relationship with your therapist is a bit one-sided– because you’re your own therapist. Who needs a PhD when I have Ph-Me telling me how to respond to life? 

Perhaps that’s why we’re so stressy messy. If the only person telling us how to cope with our anxieties is ourselves, who’s the expert here? Whenever I’m faced with a struggle in life and the anxiety palpitations are coming in strong, the best advice I can give myself is to find something funny about it. Perhaps it’s a little self-deprecating, but at least we’ve got a chuckle going. So for those of you where humor is your best medicine, here’s a batch of anxiety memes to show your therapist (whether it’s yourself or a real professional).