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Funny anxiety memes, for some odd reason, help those us us who are always stressed out. In man instances, humor is the best medicine for us! Do you wake up everyday with the exact same thoughts every morning? Ones that range from “Great, another damn day”, “Oh Boy, CAN’T WAIT to pretend to be friendly with these goons at work today”, or maybe you just wake up feeling like this woman with the exact same look on your face:
Ah, yes. I know the feeling. So far, 2020 hasn’t started off too well and I want to complain about it. My pessimistic ass wants to be a “Negative Nancy” right now. I suggest you do the same and just rip off that mask and be your true self – a “Debby Downer”.
The best way to ease anxiety, embarrassment and other unfortunate feelings like loneliness and despair is to make fun of it. It seems a bit cruel and maybe even psychopathic, but it is true what they say: “Laughter is the Best Medicine“. Right?
This post is going to be filled with anxiety humor, merchandise that promotes the idea of making light of our problems, and occasional mini rants of me whining about everything that annoys me. (Feel free to share your rants the comments below as well. Spill your guts, friends!)
Important Note on Anxiety, Depression and Stress
On a serious note though – Sometimes our hardships aren’t funny at all and we seek something to inspire us to go on, so if that sounds like you, please check out my other article instead: Feeling Down and Depressed? This Post Will Help You Feel Better.
Additionally, since this is a post for us with anxiety, be aware there is a crisis text hotline you can use to text a real person about anything you want to talk about. For example, a great option is Crisis Text Line:
Text us. If you’re anxious and your mind is racing a million miles a minute, you want help now. Like, right now. Good thing we’re here 24/7 to help you work through your anxious thoughts and get to cool and calm. Text HELLO to 741741 to connect with a real human.
Crisis Text Line, Official Website
With that being said, let’s make fun of the flaws and anxiety-stricken parts of our brains. Let’s face it, a lot of us have anxiety and/or anxiety disorders and since there are millions of us, we need to stick together and laugh at the things we have in common…
1. This T-Shirt Represents Everything We Feel When We Arrive to Work:
This shirt needs to be my official work uniform so everyone leaves me alone before I have my morning coffee. Ya feel me? Then, people would be like “Crystal!” and I can just scream “THAT’S NOT MY NAME“. That’ll teach em…🤣
2. When you regularly start comparing your Boss to a Soul-Sucking Dementor:
Do you ever sit at your work desk and think about how your boss is a soul-sucking dementor who is going to completely destroy all your inner-peace?
You should probably get something motivating to look at on your desk that isn’t annoyingly and optimistically cheesy, like this daily calendar below.
Although our circumstances at work can’t always change, our attitudes can, and this genius pack of years worth of “tough-love” helps us be more mindful about our thoughts.
Here is an example of what the pages look like and say:
I need that calendar like I need a hole in the head or the antidote to a self-started plague to eradicate people I don’t like. Too dark? Whoops. 😲
3. Funny Video: Us Against Anxiety – WAY TOO ACCURATE😅
Is this girl just like you? because she is just like me – Why is it so funny when going through it in real life sucks?
Isn’t it kinda of weird to see anxiety act in the form of a person? Like, that is literally how it feels because your inner self is all cool and collected and then BAM – out pops the genie from the bottle of misery, granting you no wishes – just WORRY. SMH. Oh man, I love that video. You see, even though anxiety and negative thinking are torturous, we can always remind ourselves that we are not alone and make fun of it together!
4. Our Alter Ego: Debby Downer
I personally am always gettin’ down to that tune, Debbie downing all day long to my mom via text. She hates it. She responds with quirky mom words drenched in fluffy enthusiasm about how great life is. Usually that annoys me when people are psychopathically optimistic, but boy, did I feel better.
But Why did I feel better? It was not because of anything improving, or the fact that life is really so wonderful (That’s BS, Mom), but her attitude and perspective helped me by helping me produce positive thoughts. This also made me realize that being a “Debby Downer” (or speaking negatively) also can have a negative effect on others, just like how my mom’s optimistic texts had a positive effect on me – even when nothing in the circumstances changed.
Anyways, let’s celebrate our addiction to melancholy muttering that annoys our moms with some hilarious “Debby Downer” themed bits of stupid fun in the form of funny anxiety memes!
ALONE FOREVER. UNLOVEABLE.
LITERALLY me since every single birthday since the age of 23. 😂
5. When you see Anxiety and decide to GTFO
Sadly this is one of the funny anxiety memes that I can relate to most. Every. damn. time. LOL.
6. WE ARE ALL SMALL TALK SURVIVORS Y’ALL
What are your most anxiety-heightening small-talk phrases/questions? Here are mine:
“Good Morning” – Because usually this is said to me BEFORE coffee. If I have had my coffee, then you can speak and exchange this robotic verbal exchange with me. LOL.
“Burr! it’s cold outside today, huh?” – Every time this happens, I yank out a handy dandy fake giggle and say in a fake higher pitched voice, “Hahaha, Yeah, it is – You stay warm!” then I walk away and roll my eyes. What did I really want to say? Oh, something along the lines of “NAW, I TELEPORTED HERE FROM KENYA – I had no idea it was cold outside!”.
“Any plans for the holiday/weekend?” – No. Gonna be alone on my living room floor eating spoiled peanut butter pie, now shoo, fly.
Despite us having gone through so many of these conversations, we are here, alive, and can live to tell the tales of overcoming tragic SMALL TALK., which is why we deserve these pins, damnit.
What is super funny is that, I do not display my anger in public, and am one of the sweetest people you will meet. I am super nice, so all these feelings of rage stay deep down inside, and I never let it show! DON’T JUDGE ME. 😝
7. WHOA, WAIT A SEC – LET ME OVERTHINK THIS FIRST.
Okay, you know how it is. You get invited to a 90’s bar crawl out on Broad Ripple and you must make a decision: to go or not to go. Here are the things that go through my mind in making decisions regarding anything that needs to be planned:
Me: Are they asking me to meet up at a reasonable hour/location? Pshhh, yeah 8PM isn’t too late and taking an Uber there would only be 20 bucks. LET’S DO IT AND HAVE SOME FUN TONIGHT, CRYSTAL. #YOLO
Overthinking Example by yours Truly
Anxiety: “Noooo, Crystal, remember that time you hit a parking garage pole and had to pay 1,000 to fix it? That sucked so bad, and if you leave the house it is possible it could happen again. AND what if your car gets 4 flat tires all at once, and all of them ricochet off the road and hit you all in the face, leaving you permanently deformed for life all because you wanted to go to a freaking bar crawl. And 8PM?! Come on Crystal, THINK – being out at night is dangerous because there is less visibility. Oh and don’t forget you need to be responsible and save money, ya damn fool”.
Me: So then, after anxiety scolds you over being too optimistic about the night ahead, it causes us to reply to the invite with “Sorry, just got the toots…can’t make it tonight”.
Anxiety: Then crickets chirp as you are left alone in your apartment with nothing to do and anxiety comes back and says, “WHOA WHOA, did you seriously just cancel your meetup over a little inconvenience in time and money? WOWZERZ, You’re as useless as a fun-size candy bar wrapper – no wonder you don’t have many friends. No one is ever going to invite you anywhere again, and you made a BIG mistake by not going. So they are going to hate you forever and their fun night will end with them praying to God for your existence to end with an alien abduction. Now, go ahead and overthink some more and you better cry or I will be back with more!“
Overthinking takes time, so you might as well “Hold on” to this relevant mug as you do it.
Or perhaps you would rather sip a mug that expresses how you REALLY feel before you’ve had enough caffeine:
8. BURN YOUR WORRIES IN GLITTER
That’s right, these anxiety, people-hating themed candles allow you to display your feelings without saying a word. Just inhale the sweet scent of vanilla and sweet orange, topped with the world’s greatest thing on the planet, GLITTER!
Update: These are currently out of stock, but keep checking! 💛
9. Relatable Funny Anxiety Memes
These are the most relatable and hilarious memes that we all could ever ask for! 😂
Pretty much……
Why can’t it be this easy though? If it was, then this wouldn’t be so funny:
Many of my friends will say to me “Wow, you hide your darkness really well” HA – If only they knew how quick I go from glad to sad when I get through the front door of my apartment. 😆 It’s tiring wearing that mask all day long! This is one of the best funny anxiety memes ever.
Hey, this meme starts out as minimally optimistic at least, right?
Will Ferrell makes anything 10 times funnier than it already is. I don’t know about y’all, but I am going to bend God’s ear tonight about how grateful I am that he didn’t make me a bony eared assfish.
The exact reason why we hate committing to plans is because never know how we will feel when the time comes and this meme featuring Stanley from The Office” explains it so well LOL
10. Are you also a depressed, “Nervous Rex”?
On the bright side, our arms are much longer, so making a bed is easier. (That was me trying to be positive, lmao)
11. So many of us sad folks are artsy fartsy
and this let’s people know that we’re both. It is also hilarious IMO. ✌🏻
12. Relatable GIFs
This is me every single time I am at a long ass stop light. TURN GREEN ALREADY BRO.
Me every Sunday night, getting overly anxious about those dreaded Monday’s :
Every night before bed after 2 hours of overthinking:
When you remember that really good day you had once:
Correction: I hate MOST people. 😝
When you’re so depressed, you start to whine as your dressed as swine:
When you’re at work at someone stops you in the hall to engage in small talk:
What I probably look like when I say things like “OMG MY LIFE IS OVER”:
When someone decides to call you rather than text:
13. Never Alone
A sarcastic way to express how lonely we truly are by saying that, hey, were not alone because we always have anxiety with us like a loyal best friend. It’s funny because it’s true!
14. Write Down your Darkness
The best way I have found to manage my occasional rage against human nature is to write that sh*t down on paper. Good venting journals need a relevant cover to set the mood though. 😛
Here are a few of the best:
This one is perfect for those times where you need a major “wine & whine” session, and even comes with funny, relevant quotes inside. Knock Knock has a great, high-quality selection of all kinds of themed notebooks that I LOVE.
I’m so Freaking Freaked Out
For when you need to freak out and geek out on paper before you start speaking rage-induced gibberish to strangers.
In my Humble Opinion…
IMHO, I think this is a perfect journal to do just as it says on the first line of the cover rant: “vent about why people are like that and why all the stupid things they do are so obvious to me” 🤐
15. Embrace your Spirit Animal
You can have any spirit animal you want, but mine is DEFINITELY Grumpy Cat. She pretty much sports the same face as I do everyday, and her attitude is the same as mine, so she is me in animal form. I connect with that kitty on some big kind of level. The connection I feel to this feline makes me buy stuff that has her relateable face on it, like this stuff.
This t-shirt sets the tone for most of us. I mean, you know the “State Farm” commercials, right? If so, you will sing the words to this shirt, and maybe even grin a little:
Use this Grumpy Cat pen to write down how much your loathe your life!
Display your bitter thoughts by letting the Grumpy Cat take the blame for them with these amazing car decal stickers!
16. Sad Face Stuff
When you are always on edge, anxious or depressed, just subtly let everyone know with stuff that screams I HATE MY LIFE. #Winning
Sad Face Necklace
Sad Emoji Beanie
The funny anxiety memes featured on this page could make even the most anxiety-ridden people smile, am I right? If this post failed in making you laugh about your tendency to be stressed out, let me know in the comments below and I will accept the challenge to better the memes! 😂
