I just made a joke about being schizo in a group on FB. It made me wonder how many of us can poke fun at ourselves?
I feel like always being super serious about our disease is detrimental to our mental health. I think that a good dose of humor helps.
I can laugh at myself, but I donāt tell people I have SZ, so no jokes about that
It was always āLaugh now, cry later.ā But yeah, I get jokes about my sz being known. I got an underhanded compliment once. āYes, youāve come a long way. You were a real mess.ā lol
I can be pretty comedic about myself when it comes to my quirks and eccentricities. As Iām sure some of you have noticed lol!
I donāt joke much about schizophrenia though. It just seems like such a serious side of my identity.
I can laugh at myself about most things. But I can only laugh about my craziness with my husband. I try to hide it from everyone else
I can laugh at myself but I limit schizophrenia jokes to here or my family, or maybe to my therapist or psychiatrist.
Iāve always laughed at myself, but since schizophrenia Iāve given up on having the last laugh.
I still laugh at my past psychotic self. I feel that I was stupid while in psychosis. Thankfully meds stopped my psychosis.
Iām a millenial who does tech support. Self-deprecating jokes is how I surivive 
I accidentally started my hair on fire twice today. My son and I had a good chuckle.
Man I hate the smell of burning hair
Yep pretty awful. Just another reason I should shave my head lol
Whenever I shave my hair my head feels really light! Is cool!
We make jokes about what I did while psychotic, me and my brothers and parents. I talk about sz with my friends but I rarely joke about it with them.
I donāt like talking to others about my stupid doings while having psychosisā¦ I think Iāll freak them outā¦
All the timeā¦
i can laugh at myself. keeps me humble.
once my parents and bros were chatting after dinner, and my dad made a joke about if the voices were listening to us talk about where we were going.
So I pretended to go off into space as if I was checking in and said , āāyeah they said they know and its okāā then I winked. (I wasnt actually hearing anything)
I had them for a moment lol
so we had a good laugh.
Well yeah, to an extent, but the part where I was in solitary I canāt find anything funny about. I just tend to block that part of my memory off.
I do laugh about some of the funny things I did while psychotic. They were rarely dangerous, so itās fair game I guess.
I canā¦ I did todayā¦ tripped on ice flat on my butt
Iām Australian. Itās part of our culture to laugh at oneself and self depreciating humor is common. It was fun when I lived in the states. You could have so much fun and most people just didnāt know how to handle it. Fond memories.