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From the creators of one of the most popular Instagram accounts,
My Therapist Says hilariously and helpfully navigates the struggle that is everyday life.
List of contents
Terms to Live By
So, You Agree? You Think I’m Really Funny?
1 I Guess You’re My Boyfriend?
The Chase
The One Who Doesn’t Know What He Wants
Avoid, Avoid, Avoid
So, You’ve Tricked Someone into Dating You?
At Least Pretend to Be Cool
The Never-Ending Games
The Fam
Ugh, Do I Have To?
Over It, TBH
If You Run into Him
The Win-stinct
When You Wish You Were Single
The Cycle
2 Am I a CEO Yet?
The Unbearable Boss
The Susan
Un-Employ Me
The Haters
That Was Probably Karmic Retribution?
The Cardi B Phenomenon
The Career Woman and Love
Why You Are a Feminist
3 Mercury’s in Retrograde, I’m Texting My Ex.
Blame It on the Stars
The Four Elements
Sun Signs
4 You Can’t Leave, You’re My Only Friend!
You Can’t Sit Here
Who Are We?
You Are Who You’re With
My Friend Is Friends with the DJ
Irish for a Night
I’d Love to Come, but I Don’t Want To
You Should Smile More
5 Mom! The Meatloaf!
Right?! Am I Right?
I Don’t Know, What Do You Wanna Do?
Be the Ronaldo of Your Life
If You Love Me, Let Me Go
So, the World Doesn’t Revolve around Me?
6 Love That for Us!
A 7 with Beer Goggles
Ugh, I Got So Fat
Love Yourself ’Cause No One Else Will
Eat, Pray, Someone Love Me
The Therapy
Famous Last Words
Make-Your-Own Memes
A Note about the Text
Acknowledgments
About My Therapist Says
About the author
My Therapist Says is the brainchild of four best friends and sisters, who needed an outlet for both their anxiety and their ridiculous stories, which they felt would be better chronicled anonymously, with the humor their friends have come to expect from them.
All hailing from Canada, the girls used the account to keep in touch with each other’s lives by meme-ing about their travels away from home.
Within a year, the Instagram became a viral sensation and grew into a business of its own. Their biting sarcasm, keen sense of humor, and general delusion has garnered 5+ million followers, a marketing company, and a mental health initiative.
With a goal of destigmatizing mental health, and finding the humor in the mistakes their mental health journeys have led them on, the team behind @mytherapistsays has decided the next outlet for them is a book:
My Therapist Says: Advice You Should Probably (Not) Follow, a compilation of what they’ve learned along the way, with a very exhausted therapist. The team is also the author of the coloring book companion,
My Therapist Says...to Color: Ignore Reality and Color Over 50 Designs Because You Can't Even.
They now reside in Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York.
Summary
From the team behind the super-popular Instagram @MyTherapistSays comes this humorous guide that chronicles the exhausting task of navigating the daily, anxiety-ridden struggle that we fondly call life.
Including hilarious memes MTS is known and loved for, along with checklists, prompts, questions from readers, and more, My Therapist Says is the guide you need to achieve your goals, one wrong turn at a time.
Have you ever wanted something, pursued it (albeit not quite as gracefully as you would’ve hoped), failed, and then genuinely asked yourself the question, “Am I delusional?” Well, that’s how I began penning this magnum opus. Like the Buddhist’s have their Tripitaka, you have…moi. And my therapist, though it’s unlikely she’ll admit this in public.
On the receiving end of a ghosting session? Needing a way to leave a work function without looking like a buzzkill? Having a hard time developing amnesia about your last relationship? Fear not, as I cover everything from circumstantial etiquette to blissful delusion when necessary.
So, grab a pen, a box of tissues, a glass of wine, and your bestie, because sh*t is about to get real. And remember, be yourself, be kind, and all that jazz, unless you’re a Susan*. If that’s the case, try to be literally anyone else. Ugh, my therapist hates that I wrote that.
*Susan: Noun and verb. Unpleasant, annoying, and delusional, the Susan is somebody who is literally awful in every way, is liked by no one, but has no clue, no matter how many open clues you give her. If you roll your eyes at this, you’re probably a Susan. Uses: Susaning, Susanism.
For even more on navigating the mystical tornado of life, get the companion coloring book: My Therapist Says...to Color: Ignore Reality and Color Over 50 Designs Because You Can't Even.
