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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit: Apparently this community is too mentally healthy/sound to even recognize this meme lol

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Those are grippy socks. They're often given to patients when they're admitted to hospital. Over the past few years they've become synonymous with being admitted to a mental health ward.

The meme is saying that they're afraid of being honest to their therapist because their therapist might admit them to a psych ward against their will.

Psych Ward Socks | Know Your Meme. A version of the meme I posted is even used in there as an example, funnily enough.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Over the past few years they've become synonymous with being admitted to a mental health ward.

Never heard or seen this. Where did that get synonymous?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a usa thing. Their psychiatric wards apparently also provide like actual therapy and psychiatric help too, from what I've read.

I don't know what it's like elsewhere but in the UK, psychiatric wards are filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the nhs. And you get no help, just held till they arbitrarily decide if you're 'safe to be released' or not. You don't get socks here, you get ptsd.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Inpatient psych wards are kind of all over the place in the US. However, as someone in the American medical field, I can confirm the grippy socks are definitely a thing.

Generally speaking, inpatient psych facilities here are also filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the medical community. Not all, and a lot of people.over here get into medicine specifically for psych but they're outnumbered by the burnt out shitbirds who are just collecting a paycheck. You also get no/the wrong help here and they hold you for a minimum 72 hrs or until you're no longer "a threat to yourself/others". It's often traumatic and life ruining because not only aren't you helped, you're thrown out on the street in debt and possibly out of a job because you missed 3 days of work, making your life measurably worse at the end than it was at the beginning of your admission

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No idea when it picked up, but my younger sibling refers to them as "grippy sock vacations"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

bruh in my country they offer those at trampoline parks 💀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same in Canada. They also glow under black light, because the entire park goes dark on certain days and hours

[–] Squirrel 3 points 1 year ago

They do that in the US, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Was about to say that I have 1.5 pairs at home

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lmao yeah, they mean I have to take my kids to one of those

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ooooohhh i see, thanks for clarifying :)

And yes, i would never be 100% honest to my therapist about what goes on in the back of my head. 🧠😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't know, we just had to bring our own socks and crocs. Was funnier that way tho, one kid had mouse shoes larger than his legs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Those are the free socks you get when arriving at the funny farm.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They take away your shoes and give you grippy socks like that when you go to a mental hospital.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Count me in and I went to therapy.