I use humor a lot to deal with things. Most people don't get my humor, it is either too nerdy or obscure but it works. I also like to watch really lame comedy shows and sometimes smart ones since I have no friends to crack jokes with. Things like Dumb and Dumber, The Simpsons and George Carlin's(RIP) stuff makes the load a little lighter.

It sounds like a common mechanism and in my opinion it is one of the more helpful things. If I have rivers of pain flowing through me and I can make jokes or laugh, then how bad can it be? Right?

Sometimes though, nothing is funny and those are scary days.