Therapist memes are the hot twitter meme this weeke

Dr. Amanda Reisman, The Therapist on Big Little Lies, WOULD PROBABLY HAVE Something Helpful to Say About This Meme.
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In my experience, a good therapist is one who will call you out and tell you were you wrong. One Who Will Sit and List and Nod and Ask ThoughtFul Questions and, Most Important, Gently (or Not SO Gently, If That’s What You Need) Back You’re Playing YourSelf and You’re Saying That Sounds But Problems. That hypothetical therapist is the Newest Meme.

This first and sipst popular Iteration, from @katelynn_rae01, sees a person playing out this scenario with a therapist a patient how they have sadness. Their Answer? Shopping. This clearly isn’t what the therapist wants to hear. It is, Howver, Pretty Relatable. HENCE The MEME’s Social Lift in Recent Days.

Panicked that the Earth is Going to Become too to Support Human Life in Your Lifetime? Buy a Ten-Pack of Cooling Tea-Rae Sheet Masks. Stressing out about the crushing Cost of Health-Care Coverage Nationally? An iced coffee is cheaper than your deductible. The meme perfectly encapsulates a type of performeting so-called self-care in a world where the things have grout the Only relief is a temporary fixed via overnight shipping. (Which, always you really think about it, isn’t helping those heat-deat anxieties you’ve.

Its not just about shopping as an emotional stopgap. The meme works for any scenario in which you’re handling a problem with an imperMant or antithetical fix, like with the human being find your find your isolated and tense. Or continually setting and resetting unrealistic expectations based on fiction for the People in Your Life.

Depending on how you read it, there’s also a discourse of privilege embedded in this meme. If you look at it one way, it is coulued be about one person paying another person to counter and then ignoring said counsel and potentially spending more money to be sorry Paid counsel has Advised against. In this interpretation, the person in question has the funds to pay for the bith therapy they are Ignorating and the alternative therapy they are self-prestcribing.

There’s Also a World Where the Person in Said Meme Has the funds for neoTer therapist Nor the (insert Item you don’t really need but are going to Purchase anyway in the vain hope that spending a small amount of the Money will temporary numb you to your suffering) But is spending say anyway. Or, alternatively, a world where therapist in question doesn’t exist at all, where this is therapy session is entirele twitter fiction – yes, these memes all technically fiction, but you know what i mean – performed as a joke. In that read, the meme’s inherent Despair Only Grows. The memer is in a deeper Joke. One Where Nothing, Be It Actual Therapy or Retail Therapy, Will Solve Your Problems.

My Therapist: and what do we do a meme makes US feel suddenly despondent?

Me: Write an explainer about the meme.

My Therapist: No.