• TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ
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    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

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

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        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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        SLPT_ Is your life boring_

        I feel personally attacked by this meme

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        Now about your health insurance…

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      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.

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          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.

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

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

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                  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.

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    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!

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      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

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    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…

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      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.

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        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