How about a laugh, (hopefully)

Posted by Leonard @jakedduck1, Dec 31, 2018

I believe laughter is the best medicine. Laughter has actually been scientifically proven to help people with depression issues.
Let’s give it a try so we can all get happy and feel better. Many Epilepsy forums I’ve been on had joke sections. I was probably the biggest joke of all since I didn’t get a lot of the jokes. They said the jokes couldn’t be above 4th grade level for me to understand them so my jokes may be rather simplistic but let’s give it a try.
Have a lovely day everyone,
Jake

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joybo99 | @joybo99 | Oct 1, 2023

I just had a tooth extracted and someone sent this poem to me.
MADE MY DAY!! Enjoy.
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/oh-i-wish-id-looked-after-me-teeth/

Valerie | @lacy2 | Oct 1, 2023

While on vacation I tried to climb a really tall tower
In France, but Eiffel off

sisyphus | @sisyphus | Oct 1, 2023

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Frankly, I think this is brilliantly hilarious!
It needs to be in the depression and anxiety sites to let us remember that no matter how dark the life, there are moments of irrepressible laughter lurking just around the corner.

And in case you think I'am minimizing the pain of those suffering with these issues, let's remember what Viktor Frankl, a four times survivor psychiatrist of holocaust camps who lost his sister, parent, pregnant wife found that sometimes the prisoners in the utter absurdity of their communal nakedness found it enough to be passingly hilarious to joke about.

Other times, such moments bring flashes of clarity to our ways of thinking helping us find a life we are after.

There is more wisdom in his thin book, Man's Search for Meaning, but this perhaps is not the place to talk about.

Welcome to a world that seems to never stops to surprise us.

captboat | @captboat | Oct 1, 2023

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@sisyphus
Thanks for the article, you can get it free if you google the title. If not you have to subscribe.

Valerie | @lacy2 | Oct 1, 2023

(May be repeat)

We have a handyman and give him a to-do list
Only Items 1, 3 and 5 get done
He only does odd jobs

Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Oct 2, 2023

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@joybo99
Thanks for the poem. Although I laughed, it also made me think as I look over my endless array of overflowing candy dishes.
I think I'll go brush and floss my teeth now.
Jake

covidstinks2023 | @covidstinks2023 | Oct 2, 2023

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@joybo99 Thanks for the poem. Although I laughed, it also made me think as I look..." + (show)

So in other words, "If you are TRUE to your teeth, they won't be FALSE to you?" The poem was hilarious. Thanks for sharing!

joybo99 | @joybo99 | Oct 2, 2023

In reply to @jakedduck1 "@joybo99 Thanks for the poem. Although I laughed, it also made me think as I look..." + (show)

Sometimes it's genetics. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! PS. I'm down to a single candy dish-- but of all things, it contains caramel creams! 😳😅