If you're one of the millions of people who were born before the ubiquity of smartphones, you might feel like you're getting old when you go online. When I scroll through TikTok, and I see countless videos that are ⅓ Family Guy clips , ⅓ ASMR slime video, and ⅓ Subway Surfer gameplay, I wonder if I'm out of touch with the youngest generation of online users. Luckily, I don't think that the millennials and elder Gen Zers have anything to worry about. We were lucky enough to grow up during a time…

The idea of working security and staring at a camera for eight hours has never appealed to me. I've always figured I'd fall asleep on the job, or get scared being by myself. I never really thought about the horrors that people who work these jobs might see on a daily basis. A few years ago, Redditor u/rudsfromithaca started a thread where they asked security folks and camera watchers to get together and share their weirdest and most disturbing stories from when they were on the clock. These nig…

Depression is a fickle, frustrating beast. It can come at any time, in any variety, and in any severity. You could have had the best week of your life. Everything going right; work is incredible, friendships are healthy, and social life is stellar. But one day you wake up and that terrible feeling has emerged. You have no idea how long it will last or how bad it will be. All you know is that it's an incredibly awful burden. One that affects every part of your life. But that's the thing about de…

Social media at large is certainly not a medical forum, but its users sure like to pretend it is. In the past couple of years, there have been… situations , one might say, that have increased the amount of medical discourse that happens among non-medical professionals both on social media and in the world at large. It makes sense of course: when people are faced with a crisis that is unprecedented in their lifetime, they tend to seek answers instead of wallowing in helplessness. Unfortunately,…

Life is like a game of dodgeball, but instead of rubber balls, it's throwing neuroses, depression, existential crises and responsibilities at us. And let's be real, we're all getting hit left and right. Take me, for example. I'm currently juggling more responsibilities than a circus clown with a dozen balls, trying to keep it all together while the world around me is on fire. And the cherry on top? The cost of therapy and psychiatrists is so prohibitively high, it's making my depression worse.…

Are you fighting demons?

If you're someone who spends so much time scrolling through memes that you forget to eat, shower, or see sunlight, you're in good company. We here at Memebase totally get it - memes are like potato chips, you can't just have one. You have to have them all. As anxious-depressive humor experts, we often find ourselves throwing ourselves into humor to lessen the pain of existence. But let's be real, if you're using memes as a way to avoid dealing with your problems, you might want to consider ther…

Not all memes are for everyone. Some memes are specifically designed for a beautiful woman that's going through something right now. These memes are not made to encapsulate the whole of all human experiences. That would be too easy. These memes are for women on the verge. On the verge of what? Just on the verge. If you get it, you get it. So much online content is made by men about women, and therefore, women are only shown themselves as men see us. That's no good, because the way that men see…

FIGHT!

We all have mental health, but some of us have less mental health than others. Conversations around mental illness often focus on more socially acceptable diagnoses. Anxiety and depression are not only extremely common but also widely discussed. In a way, they've almost become completely destigmatized conditions. It's kind of wild how much more socially acceptable to talk about these things now. Back when boomers were growing up, it was incredibly hush-hush. Nowadays, everyone's on Lexapro, and…

Seasonal Affective Disorder is no joke

As a wise person once said, everybody has mental health . That much might be true, but unfortunately, not everybody has good mental health. Before we are born, we are entered into the mental health genetic lottery, and while some of us come out unscathed, those with a sweet, sweet history of mental illness will likely come out extremely scathed. The worst part about having mental health issues is that everybody thinks they're experts on how to help you. People roll out lethargic advice all the…

Gritting our teeth

It's hard to understate how much the world is not made for autistic people. If you don't live up to a very specific standard of social behavior, you're branded as “weird.” It can be isolating growing up in a world where it seems as if everybody understands this secret language of social cues, but you just can't

If you logged onto Tumblr for the first time as a tween without knowing what depression was, you certainly weren't going to log off without learning. If you weren't a teenager on Tumblr in the early 2010s, it's difficult even to describe how insane the content was regarding depression and mental health issues. It was a nearly constant conversation, with Tumblr users sharing graphic details of their experiences with self-harm and suicide. Sure, these posts built a community in some aspects, but…

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