When Healing Gets Petty: How One Redditor’s Free Sticker Prank Sparked a Debate on Revenge Therapy
Sometimes, healing from childhood trauma doesn’t look the way you’d expect. For one Redditor, it came wrapped in a stack of free sticker mailers—20 to 30, to be exact—all addressed (with a purposeful typo) to her narcissistic father’s apartment mailbox. The post, which quickly climbed to 500+ upvotes on r/PettyRevenge, charmed, amused, and sharply divided the community: was this an act of harmless, therapeutic rebellion… or a sign that therapy had gone off the rails?
The story begins with years of abuse and a final, no-contact break. But it’s what came next—petty revenge, therapist approved—that turned this post into a lightning rod for debate and a showcase of Reddit’s finest armchair psychology.