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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Valerie | @lacy2 | Oct 18, 2023

Friend to me: Oh you look tired today

Me: Yes, my neighbour was up pounding on my
front door at 3:00am this morning - lucky
for him I was still up, playing my bagpipes!

itchyd | @itchyd | Oct 19, 2023

In reply to @shirleyrawlins "My neighbor communicates with his garden. Yes, Jack and the beans talk." + (show)

Groan.

Good one!

itchyd | @itchyd | Oct 19, 2023

In reply to @lacy2 "Friend to me: Oh you look tired today Me: Yes, my neighbour was up pounding on..." + (show)

You're lucky you weren't kilt.

Valerie | @lacy2 | Oct 19, 2023

.... was a while before I started reading/posting (copy and pasting) jokes on this as have said before with own illnesses and reading of others’ far worse, but did and does bring a smile to my face... am now having mixed feelings with the news currently (and not wanting to get into discussion about it) with so much death and destruction ... but I have again this “underlying feeling” of perhaps guilt I suppose - am I alone feeling this way.. and why am I ? 🌹

Scott R L | @scottrl | Oct 19, 2023

In reply to @lacy2 ".... was a while before I started reading/posting (copy and pasting) jokes on this as have..." + (show)

You're not alone. But I have found that finding humor in bad situations helps me cope. (So-called "gallows humor.")

If worrying myself to death over the world situation would help, I'd do it. But it doesn't.

Find peace and joy where you can.

Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Oct 19, 2023

In reply to @scottrl "You're not alone. But I have found that finding humor in bad situations helps me cope...." + (show)

@lacy2
@scottrl
I have Epilepsy and find humor in those jokes. But I think a person has to fully accept their condition and be secure with it, and it's necessary to be able to laugh at oneself. Although I would never post such a joke because some do find them objectionable. I do actively seek out those jokes for my own entertainment. But I have been subjected to very cruel stigma attacks in the past. Maybe that has something to do with it or maybe I'm just weird, actually there's no maybe about that!
Take care,
Jake

Valerie | @lacy2 | Oct 20, 2023

Hi, thanks for taking the time to comment. Other people’s pain and suffering always did find a place in my heart and am sure in many peoples’ maybe as now I am up there in years and have a lot of time to reflect on things even in my own family. Maybe it’s because I do tend to complain about small matters, gets to be a habit sometimes, when so many might trade places with me in a second!!! As have said and repeat, have found reading and sharing “jokes” has brought some humour back into my life and even now sharing a few with adult daughter - she is getting a kick out of them too ... sorry about the stigma Leonard... and i too can and do laugh at myself a fair bit... best wishes, J.

sedama | @sedama | Oct 20, 2023

I have several family members coping with serious problems such as marriage separation, severe drug addiction and newly declared lesbian. As the mother/ grandma, I want to help but they are withdrawing from me. I have few friends and am elderly. What can I
Do?

Scott R L | @scottrl | Oct 20, 2023

In reply to @sedama "I have several family members coping with serious problems such as marriage separation, severe drug addiction..." + (show)

Just my opinion...

Sometimes the best thing you can do is to let them know "I'm here for you when you need me," and leave it up to them.

I know that sounds awful, but really try to resist the urge to jump in and "fix" things.

Obviously, you know your family better than I do, but sometimes people have a need to work things out on their own.

Right after my wife and I got married, we had a string of serious setbacks. (For one, just 13 days after our wedding I had a knee injury that put me in a wheelchair for four months.) We never sought help from anybody; it was tough, but we worked it out just fine. We grew stronger because of it, but we're both fierce individualists.

Life is tough. Be available for them, and let them ask.

I would love to hear from others on this.