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
"Mom do I really need to go to the brainrot appointment today?"
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.
Shit.
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!
| || || |_Tell me how this makes you feel
I'm at a loss
.:|:;
makes me want to floss my teeth
That would probably actually really get through to me
Has anybody actually had a therapist show an ink blot?
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:
It can be a fun icebreaker and has the potential to start some good conversations
That looks like a fun time!
Can't remember how many times for job admissions.
It'd be better to ask for the list of communities the person is subscribed to before the visit.
"show me your youtube recommendations"
I would sooner let them see my watch history. YouTube use to send me right wing shit until I installed a third party channel blocker.
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..
Memes are probably more used than rorschach tests nowadays, but that's because the tests are outdated and compromised by everyone knowing about them.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.
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:
It do be like that sometimes.
It do be like that sometimes
It don’t sometimes though.
