Stamets [Mirror]A perfect fit
GranixoI don’t get it.
DuckPuppetThose are the free socks you get when arriving at the funny farm.
EherVielleichtCount me in and I went to therapy.
This should help.
Psych Ward Socks
Psych Ward Socks, also known as Hospital Socks, refers to the grippy, low-cut, ankle socks that one is given when admitted to a psychiatric ward. The socks are meant to be comfortable and anti-slipping for patient safety. The term was first used in a blog post from March 2012 but received more attention as a term and group concept on Reddit starting in January 2016. Memes and image macros involving the likeness of psych ward socks evolved across Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram starting most notably in 2018.
MetostopholesThey take away your shoes and give you grippy socks like that when you go to a mental hospital.
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.
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?
Check the link I posted in that comment.
OurTragicUniverseIt'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 ehat it's like elsewhere but in the UK, psychiatric wards are filthy 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.
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
No idea when it picked up, but my younger sibling refers to them as “grippy sock vacations”
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. 🧠😅
TheCheddarCheesebruh in my country they offer those at trampoline parks 💀
Was about to say that I have 1.5 pairs at home
Same in Canada. They also glow under black light, because the entire park goes dark on certain days and hours
VCTRNLmao yeah, they mean I have to take my kids to one of those
SquirrelThey do that in the US, too.
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.