Does anyone else thank the heavens they have a good sense of humor about life and issues? Because this is key in keeping me from going off the deep end sometimes. Sometimes if I can laugh at myself( i especially laugh on the days my moods are like time on a clock, they change so frequently) it makes the whole thing seem a little more easily dealt with.

Who else uses humor to get through the day? Share funny stories if you like!

[Junerain]

I have to tell myself stories througout the day, and even imagine them typed out here where it is safe to express yourself.

"This next job will be more my type of job, or at least an _attempt at
one! lol"

"Junerain is unique the way Junerain has to struggle and struggle at not losing her purse every single errand Junerain finds herself doing!"

"Will Junerain find a date for Valentine's then post at PC how silly the bloke is! lol"

To me it is not just a sense of humor, but a sense of 'story' and the lucid point of life's story, funny and fun to share here.

I started a thread in psychosis and its about laughing at yourself, if you dont laugh at yourself then life would be pretty dull.

[Tmac]

My sense of humor is something that helps me get by for sure. Sometimes I feel so crappy inside that it actually helps me to see others laughing and being happy. It is also a great way to hide the true feelings or lack of feelings inside. I also liked to pull harmless pranks and was quite well known for both at work. It is wierd it is almost like having a second personality. It is funny I am sitting here laughing right now at some of the wise crack jokes I let slip at out district managers meetings. I actually had the DM come up to me after a meeting and tell me at 1 point she was annoyed with my one liners and wise cracks. Then she said how much she realized she enjoyed it after I missed a meeting. She said everyone seemed to enjoy it and now it was something she expected and looked forward to. What seems disruptive at first can really seem to lighten up a boring situation. It is actually funny to sit in a room of very serious straight faced people afraid to crack a smile all of a sudden having a good belly laugh. Guess you can say I am the class clown. Jokes can make very boring times a lot more fun. So now that I rambled a bit too much....yes if I didn't have a sense of humor I don't know that I would have made it this far in life!

[splitimage]

My sense of humour definitely helps me get by. I don't know where I'd be without it. One of my favourite moments was when I had to go see a haematological oncologist because my blood work was seriously off. My Dr. had made the referal after being completely stumped by the results.

It was all very nurturing and serious at the local cancer hospital. I was met by a nurse, the Dr. and a med student who was observing.

They asked me what symptoms I'd noticed. I said, well I have a lot of abnormal bruising, but what really freaked me out was I noticed my blood clotting time wasn't normal. (Apparantely it isn't normal to know what normal blood clotting time is.) So the nurse asked me, "Oh are you a nurse?". I said, no - but I used to self-injure through cutting so I have a pretty good sense of what's normal for me.

The look on the med student's face was priceless - he looked like he wanted to bolt from the room. The Dr. was pretty good about it, he just kind of went ahha and went on with the exam.

The other line I liked was from my music teacher, after I'd had a seizure - I was waiting for an EEG and CAT scan, and the Dr's were worried about a brain tumour. She looked at me and said, "Oh I'm sure it will be fine. The universe wouldn't be so mean as to make you crazy AND give you a brain tumour. LOL

--splitimage

[madisgram]

what a great thread!!! i too enjoy a great sense of humor...i think it's made me be able to overcome things cause i can laugh at my own actions and find things amusing that are just part of life.
when i was in the "walnut factory" (psych ward) i noticed another patient watering a potted tree in the community room each morning. i thought , ahhh that's so nice of her to do that. it's so nurturing even tho she too is in mental pain. well you see, i need glasses to see well. when i went up to the potted tree one morning, i realized it was a plastic tree!!!! omg, i didn't laugh out loud cause i didn't want to hurt her feelings but i went in my room and laughed til i cried.
thanks rainbowzz for this great thread. i had a hearty laugh about all that's been posted already.

[jbug]

I have to have a sense of humor about my MH stuff or I would go mad.

I remember this one time with an old Pdoc of mine...I miss him but anyway. I was telling him about being in the psych ward and called it the nut farm and told him I got to drive the tractor. I told him with a deadpan look and he took me seriously. He asked where the place was because he wanted to be the doctor there if you got to drive farm equipment. I cracked up told him that it wasn't a real farm that it was just another name for the psych ward. He got all embarrased.

Jan