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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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Tell me how this makes you feel

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Localhorst86 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

makes me want to floss my teeth

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Mom do I really need to go to the brainrot appointment today?"

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you know Ohio is bad, right?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah ik lol. I think it's funny to use those words wrong on purpose bc it makes kids cringe

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not just the kids... (though the reasons may differ)

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Haha, that's fair

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Everybody knows Ohio is bad.

Oh, you meant the slang term

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can I get your dankest CPTSD and social anxanity memes, or do I need to be a client?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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God's plan

SLPT_ Is your life boring_

I feel personally attacked by this meme

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Now about your health insurance...

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 1 week ago

Spicy and relatable, but It seems my card has declined.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I said "mood" to most of these does that mean I should have stuck with therapy instead of self medicating and avoidance?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hmmm. I'd say it depends on how well the drugs and avoidance is going

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

/avoids answering and smokes up

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mixed results but that wont stop me from trying.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Might I ask what sort of drugs?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

That's the spirit! With drugs and a can-do attitude, therapy would just be a waste of money

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

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly! Preciate the validation lol

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh shit you're the person who posted that wholesome message that I then bastardized. I was honestly disappointed that mine got more upvotes

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha, you're good, upvotes are just pixels on the internet. The more people saw that meme, the better.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True! I just meant I was disappointed that people were more likely to upvote hate than love, but it's to be expected

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

That would probably actually really get through to me

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Image

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!

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Has anybody actually had a therapist show an ink blot?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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:

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It can be a fun icebreaker and has the potential to start some good conversations

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That looks like a fun time!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 week ago

Can't remember how many times for job admissions.

[–] babybus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It'd be better to ask for the list of communities the person is subscribed to before the visit.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"show me your youtube recommendations"

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It do be like that sometimes.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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..

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

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: chat-gpt generated art from when it didn't use dedicated image model for that

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It do be like that sometimes

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

It don’t sometimes though.