Forget the straitjacket costumes! It’s time to REALLY dress mentally ill. Frighten all your friends on October 31st… by dressing like a regular person.

To get that fresh-from-the-insane-asylum look, you’ll need a comfy sweater, some tracksuit bottoms and… wait, that’s it, you’re done! Who would have thought that’s what people who spend copious amounts of hours indoors against their will while slowly losing the will to live tend to wear? Spooky!

A Person In Acute Mental Distress costume is also versatile. You can recycle it next year for Person on a Jog, Person Lying on Sofa Watching Netflix or Celebrity Trying to Avoid Paparazzi When Buying Cheese Puffs.

If you’re keen to truly incite terror this season, it’s time to show everybody what a shitty, sheltered little gremlin you are. Why not be “that dickhead who dresses as a mental patient for Halloween”?


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