Yeah... I'm sure if a shrink ever got a hold of me I'd be pretty fucked up. I visibly upset a teacher one time by making a joke about my dad being dead, which in hindsight was probably in poor taste
Humour is actually one of the healthiest coping methods (as opposed to drugs/alcohol/violence/etc) - provided you're not just using it as a crutch and you're taking steps to actually deal with your issues. I had a patient who lost his left arm in Afghanistan and he would say "Y'know, I lost my left arm and that was pretty hard at first but I'm all-right now." Which would elicit varying degrees of horrified responses, but in that case his jokes were actually a sign of healing and using the humour to overpower the trauma.
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· 7 years ago
Haha miss me with that faggy depression talk, doc. *snap snap*
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