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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
Ugh. I HATE the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" memes. For example, "Think positive and you will be happy!" That sort. They just perpetuate mental illness stigma and cause a whole lot of people to feel guilty.
I'll look for some memes to post on this thread.
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The very last words that my evil stepmother uttered when I grovelled and asked her for help with my depression.
“You just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Come back to see me when you’re not crying so much.”
I equate that ‘think positive’ crap with CBT. I’m overwhelmed by those 12-step memes — “Stop your stinkin’ thinkin’!” — ugh; makes me ill. When hospitalized we had two or three ‘anonymous’ meetings per day. As I wasn’t speaking for over one-year, I never ‘shared’ during that year or for the following years.
One meme that I loath is the pernicious use of the word ‘meme.’ It’s Richard Dawkins’ (my hero!) word yet it’s been purloined by the Internet to mean something entirely different than Dawkins’ meaning.
Ugh.