Masking pain with humor

[Latina]

Overheard at restaurant last night, man in next booth talking: "Since my wife left me, I sleep like a baby...I wake up every two hours, crying."

So, how have YOU used humor to cope with life's painful situations?

-- Latina

 

[Stormystarr]

I am sad and depressed most of the time, but hardly anyone knows it. I just laugh and smile a lot to cover it up without saying much of anything at all.

 

[Juliangel]

I don't deal with it very well, as a child I buried it deep and never delt with it at all.

I am on Prozac for my OCD so that helps and I had a really good shrink helping with the OCD and anything else that popped up but our insurance changed so now I have to find a new one.

 

[Thumper]

24/7

always...

 

[ranajja]

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry alone."

Isn't that the saying? or some such?

I do a bit of both, I suppose. Crying just makes your eyes all puffy and your nose all runny...and it's hard to sing when you're crying...

 

[Guest]

So, how have YOU used humor to cope with life's painful situations?

Hell yes. I believe The Truth About Tiggs, one of my several depression threads, goes into detail about that.

 

[Chuckus]

Overheard at restaurant last night, man in next booth talking: "Since my wife left me, I sleep like a baby...I wake up every two hours, crying."

So, how have YOU used humor to cope with life's painful situations?-- Latina

Sure it has sometimes been the only thing to keep my sanity in tact. Even did the same thing as you overheard.....only I wasn't eating to go along with it.

Humor is a key element for all of us in my opinion, sometimes you just have to find a way to laugh at the curveballs that life throws you.