Humor?

[BLA]

So I am trying cope using humor with the fact that my brain doesn't seem to be functioning the way it should be, so here it goes:
Sometimes it feels like my brain is running Windows '98 and I just get that blue screen of death telling me , "Reality has just performed an illegal operation."

You know how sometimes time just drags and you are just dying for it to speed up? I don't have to worry about that annoying drag. I just get caught up in my head and 5 minutes becomes two hours.

You know I feel like we just don't talk person to person enough anymore so my issue with avoiding phone calls is just me trying to reconnect with old days when we actually had more in person conversation.

And you know there is just way too much traffic these day so I think I just should stay off the roads out of my respect for my fellow citizens. So my anxiety about it is actually benefiting others.

I could probably think of more. Maybe they seem funny only to me but if I don't laugh sometimes I will just end up crying so these are some of my attempts to cope.

 

[ladee]

If I didn't have a sense of humor, and it is a twisted one at that, I would have seen no reason to continue on this journey of life. with or without PTSD..... I can laugh at myself, preferable to someone laughing at me first.... humor has saved my life on may occasions....
Welcome by the way, if I haven't welcomed you.... you can go to the list of Forums, and click on Social.... it is full of threads with laughter. My personal favorite....You know you have PTSD when...... and many others.... I go to that topic, just to keep from blowing my brains out sometimes..... graphic, but my truth.... and yes, without laughter, life does lose some importance doesn't it...

 

[BLA]

At times I am on Twitter on threads that make me laugh for just this reason. I felt like my head was going to explode and luckily I came across it and I didn't feel so ready to blow.
I have done quite a bit of crying this week so I needed some laughs to balance it out.

 

[420kitty]

I loved the Windows '98 analogy! I am right there with you.

 

[user27357]

My latest favorite mental health humor:

A guy goes to his counselor and the counselor asks how things are going. "well, I was fine but on the way here I passed a construction site and the workers there told me I had paranoid delusions" he says. The counselor looks shocked and asks:"really? they said that to you?" "no" the guy replies, "they didn't say it, but they tapped it out in Morse code with their hammers".

I am here all week, tip your waitresses!

If you can't laugh at yourself you are lacking one of the best survival tricks there are. When I was a first responder I found that most (not all) people are almost begging for someone objective to point out the humor of even the most dire of situations. You would be amazed at how many people with wrecked cars and broken arms/legs/ribs and lots of pain and anxiety will chuckle when you ask them if they made sure that the groceries in the back seat had the eggs packed in with the bread for protection or something equally mundane and random. The humor in the ER is just plain weird unless you work there and are used to it or are a patient willing to let the banter take you out of yourself and the pain just a little.

Let yourself laugh at yourself, nothing wrong with it. Laugh at the most inappropriate times, why not? Was it more appropriate to be depressed and scared or aware of the pain?