Can't Stop Laughing During Therapy!

[whalewatcher]

I used to laugh too. I would be screaming at myself inside "what are you doing, stop laughing!" but i think it was a coping thing. I got to the stage where I actually believed that If i spoke about my traumas out loud while being able to express how I really felt and what it did to me, it would kill me. Every time I would speak about one of my trauma's or each time my therapist paid me a compliment I would smile or laugh and the harder I tried to stop it, the worse it got.

 

[moonbeam]

I laugh as well. If I'm uncomfortable or nervous. I think its a coping mechanism to try and downplay how serious it actually is, and helps avoid dealing with difficult emotions. When I was going to group trauma therapy they told us it was a common response and that we aren't allowed to laugh if others do because they may be feeling something deeper below that they need to address and we would be letting them off if we laugh too so they might not deal with what they need to.