10 Social Media Posts About Illness This Week That Will Make You Laugh
Life with a chronic condition usually isn’t all — or ever — fun in games. Just managing your symptoms or treatment routine is a full-time job on its own. Not to mention navigating relationships with people who don’t quite get it or worse, a doctor who isn’t sure what to do.
But when you’re dragging through your last bit of energy or scratching your head in a cloud of brain fog, sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh. That’s why we’re introducing a new weekly roundup of funny and relatable social media posts from fellow warriors from around the web.
Laughter *isn’t* the best medicine — and yes we HAVE thought about exercise or trying that new supplement, thank you very much! Yet sometimes a humorous moment from others who are going through it just like us can make the journey a little more manageable.
Here are 10 tweets we found this week that might just make you LOL:
1. When all you can do is say ‘screw it.’
Drug commercials when the side effect includes death pic.twitter.com/DdihnCA5Ha
— ☁️☁️ (@southwezzt) December 12, 2019
2. When the lyrics to your favorite song just… fit.
3. When the lyrics to your favorite holiday song fit.
4. That time a dying battery ad got it right.
Do any other spoonies, when seeing the Chromebook ‘battery’ advert, when the people say “I’m dying” and “anyone got a charger?“; think ‘IT ME’?!!?!?!?#SpoonieLife #SpoonieProblems #Spoonie #pwME #MEcfs #NeedACharger
— James Cooper (@jpc101) December 11, 2019
5. That time you wished you tried another recipe.
Write a recipe inspired by your health condition #DistractMe
6. When hospitals use ‘new math.’
Posted by Never in your Wildest Memes on Monday, December 9, 2019
7. When brain fog sets in.
#BrainFog #FibroFog #FMS #fibromyalgia #fibro #FunnyFibro pic.twitter.com/IflTbCAEez
— Fibro Bloggers (@FibroBloggers) December 17, 2019
8. When you can’t get the temperature right.
9. When you’re frustrated with your doctor.
10. When someone finally ‘sees’ your invisible illness.
See a funny social media post you’d like us to feature? Tag us or send an email to news@themighty.com and we may feature it in next week’s roundup!
Header image via dysautonomeme/Instagram
Renée Fabian was the features editor at The Mighty. She has also written for The Washington Post, VICE, Healthline, Talkspace, The Fix, The Establishment, The Culture Trip, and GRAMMY.com, among others. Renée was named a 2019 AHCJ Comparative Effectiveness Research fellow, a 2020 USC Center for Health Journalism California fellow, and holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a master's degree in psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @ryfabian.
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