Humor

I was wondering if any one else uses humor as a coping tool? I use it alot. This disease is strong and it takes alot out of me. What kinda stuff do you do? As u can see from my last post I make up variations of the word PTSD. I use alot of humor in therapy when I can. Of course my therapist makes it easy for example the other day she almost walked into a wall. How do you guys feel about humor? I know there is a time and place for it. I also do very intense work. I have therapy three hours a week. I cant take any medication as the side effects have been horriable to me. So I am pretty much very raw and have to find ways to take some of the edge off. Sometimes as my therapist is walking me to the door and we get surrounded by other therapists who crowd my space as they are walking around. I say to my therapist very loud. Thanks for your help I will stop burying thoses bodies in my back yard. She usually plays along. Its just really fun.

My T and I laugh a lot. We have similar sarcastic senses of humor, and it's easy for us to make each other giggle. Sometimes we have an all out joke/laugh fest

I'm like you - I go twice a week and we go to some dark and scary places. We used to sometimes have an intense session followed by a lighter session. But we seem to have come to a point where we can go to the dark places AND laugh in the same 50 minutes. I'm grateful for that.

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I'm afraid humor doesn't work for me, as when my trauma level hits the painful level, I also fall into depression. And when I'm depressed, nothing is funny -- I mean nothing.

But I'm glad it works for you!

You know, sometimes humer does help. It really does!!