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dad jokes therapy
It’s a little something I like to call, the healing power of no laughter.
It’s more like you’re forced to stop the tears so you can sigh loudly and roll your eyes. It’s a reflex really.
We all have great potential to heal others
Hi struggling with severe depression, I’m dad.
That sounds like a fine way to make someone feel like their struggles are not being taken seriously, especially the psych nurse example. When in a crisis, it’s not helpful to have your emotions second-guessed and be put on the defense by people who are purportedly there to help you.
If I were in that situation, I’d first be perplexed, but then I’d feel angry that my clear and obvious distress was called into question (especially by a so-called psych professional.) What is “legit sad” supposed to even mean? If someone’s at the point where they’re talking to professionals and crying, it’s really shitty to question their emotions. That just leaves people feeling more alone and upset in the end.
Maybe that’s why they’re a psych nurse and you’re not?
that checks out actually because the job of psych nurses is to torture so much that you never wanna come back
ime the nurses were fine to good, but the social worker and program leads were fucking awful people.
Sounds like a systems issue
maybe don’t have kids
Bit late pal
Well alright, but don’t have any more, capeesh?
Wasn’t planning to. Any more irrelevant advice?
Yes, if you’re planting radishes in summer, make sure to space them apart 1cm and cover them gently with some planter soil. Bring them in for winter and leave them by your radiator for best results
Too late for that too.
Well alright congrats, but don’t never smother them with love and support, capeesh?
I’ll smother them with coal dust from the mines I send them to work at.
that’s why after the person is perplexed, the nurse actually starts caring about them. It’s obviously an instrument, albeit not guaranteed to work, but it’s worth a try, considering that psychoactive substances have lasting and not always predictable side-effects.
So yeah, if i ever had a chance to try it with a friend, and i’d have enough wit atm to come up with something as funny, as the op posted, i’d do it, but then hug them right after, and say that it’s okay.
It really, really depends on the situation and delivery, and you’re doing a lot of heavy lifting with these assumptions. There are plenty of situations where a psych nurse saying that to a patient might make perfect sense, as well as lots of situations where it’d be inappropriate.
I’m coming at this from the angle of somebody with chronic depression, which is as valid a starting point as any other psych condition.
I don’t know OP’s situation, but I do know what it’s like to have my experiences and feelings invalidated - my own mom’s denial meant I couldn’t receive professional help until I was an adult.
Not all psych patients have trouble correctly identifying their feelings. Or is the assumption that psych patients lie? Either way, it’d be wise to reconsider one’s stereotypes. I see no reason to assume OP’s condition one way or another (and indeed, any story on the internet should be questioned), but I do know how dangerous denial of help can be for somebody who’s suffering.
Some guy: devastated over the loss of their family in a horrific car accident.
This guy: did you know the actor for Aragorn broke his foot when he kicked that helmet?
In the future, I’ll save this when someone complains that the thing I just said was incredibly stupid. I’ll explain that it may sound that way to you, but I’m a professional.
I’m a professional idiot, sir!
I’m an idiot savant. Just haven’t reached the savant phase yet.
It works. Had my main dude at work about to have full blown punch the window fit, which would be like the 5th this year but at least he wasn’t gonna be able to run again, he was hyper focusing on ‘‘the bus is a car’’ and people saying no was making him real upset, so I told him ‘‘na man, it’s a plane without wings’’ and he went from scary yelling to ‘‘wait… what?’’ Pulled him right out of it. It works.
My mom did this to me when I told her I was having suicidal ideation. “I knew it, I knew you use this against me.” I don’t she was taught to do that for my benefit tho…
holy shit fam, take care please
First of all, I appreciate that. Empathy is power. Secondly, I made it out. I’m thriving in ways I never would have imagined even a few months ago, let alone the years it’s been since that situation.
To anyone who finds themselves in the dark, hold on.
That is a beautiful comic, thank you for sharing. Congratulations on making it through.
i feel bit angy that you foo|ed me
but on the other side feel better from the fact that there’s a happy person standing, where moments ago i imagined an unhappy one
What’s the reason for the trickery, may i wonder?
This person made it out of the bad situation. They did not make up the situation.
I need to go to fucking sleep, damn, this is beyond stupid of me
Honestly, I misunderstood too for a couple of seconds. :)
it was a sleepless nigh for me, and i left lots of comments over here during it. I wonder, how many of them are actually just as stupid
drivecomment responsibly, kids, don’t repeat my mistakes
The example in the meme is a technique called redirection, and does not neglect aftercare. It just deescalates the situation to a safer level. Your example is more like emotional abuse, neglect, and more. I’m so sorry that happened to you, I hope you’ve been seen and heard and have a safe place now.
Yeah, aftercare was certainly not part of the picture for this particular situation. The good news is that I made it out in one piece. I’m living the good life these days, and all the more grateful for it.
I’m sorry you had to deal with type b personality disorder psychopathy from your mother.
Yeah, kind of a trip realizing maybe that wasn’t the best environment for me. But, hey, at least I made it out. ✌️
there’s a balance between being invalidating and funny
Years ago a good friend of mine started crying in class and asked me “Please say something, quick!” so I just replied “something, quick!” and the dad joke was enough to pull her out of her misery.
It really does work but it’s not easy to think of something on the spot.Unfortunately, it’s a bottle episode…
oh no. That usually comes after the feet episode…
the beach episode was the worst episode of ER.
But the most memorable scene from the show also involved a(n imagined) beach.
I’ve never watched ER. It was on a lot when I was a kid and it reminded me too much of the soap operas that were also on; absolute disinterest
Anyways, the link preview was hilarious to me
Not the subject of him dying but just the title is so direct
I, too, skipped ER when I was a kid, mostly because of how cheesy that intro sounded and I also thought it was just another General Hospital type soap opera.
I’m rewatching it now at age 36. It’s excellent. Smartly written, engaging, fast paced, and it holds up in 2025.
Stupid intro.
Michael Crichton was behind the project, so it had actual writing and a decent narrative behind it. I think the only medical show I’ve liked more was Scrubs, which despite being a comedy had some amazing and memorable episodes.
I’ve heard The Pitt is a good modern successor (and in fact was originally planned to be an ER reboot early in production), but I’m completely burned out on medical dramas at this point.
Thank you for that. I guarantee you when I think of ER it’s a mashup of them both and I should probably give it a fair shake. There’s a lot of shows my parents watched that I didn’t appreciate until I was older
My family watched Northern Exposure and I absolutely fell in love with it when I gave it a shot a few years ago
Worse, its a recap episode in the middle of a 12 episode anime.
Everyone else: the beach episode is from ER
Me: thinking of the ‘episode’ from The Beach.
I’m having a flashback, clip-show, musical episode.
It’s the musical episode.
Sounds like Neuro-Linguistic Programming
