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People Are Sharing Where They Are Mentally With A Simple, Effective Meme

One of the scariest places to be these days is inside our own minds, the processing plant for all the horrors of the world. Maybe it’s because many of us have been in one place for too long over the last few months, but the “mentally I’m here” meme really paints an accurate picture of what it’s like to either use your imagination to get away or have a total break down.

According to Know Your Meme, this iteration by @BreniffMoot is the first version of the phrase “mentally I’m here” to be accompanied by an image. It seems pretty sincere and also nice:

Then there was this version from @PPRADAFEMME which is also presenting a beautiful fantasy world:


And then came this cursed image from @helen, which more accurately reflects where I am at mentally:


The meme only got weirder from there, because where everyone is at mentally is not good. While some people definitely used the meme in an escapist way, sending themselves to Hogwarts or the Twilight series, lots of people were mentally in hellscapes, lonely solitude, or haunted by monsters.

Scroll through and see if you recognize where you are mentally or at least find someplace to drift off to when you close your eyes.

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Aimeé Lutkin