Laughter is the best medicine right?
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No, I find it very unappetizing to joke about a progressive brain disease with a very bad course. ten to fifteen percent commits suicide and the rest almost always depends on care.
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SZ didn’t went off completely.
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@anon68148378 5 mg abilify thamadiya doc ne…???
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Yes @far_cry0, but he was impressed by my recovery. Pdoc said to me that I will come to him without previous appointment on date. Meeting was very pleasent.
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I always joke about my psychosis. I find it makes people less afraid of me.
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My family said they always thought I was hysterically funny, because of the things I said during my psychosis. I understand where they’re coming from, but I came close to offing myself during those times. So I don’t think it’s really something to laugh about in that regard. But I can see how it’s funny to hear irrational things being said. I don’t know though.
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At my most psychotic, I paced back and forth in the mental hospital from 7am to 2pm after being awake for two days in a row. I guess that’s sort of funny. 
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Humor is my best coping mechanism. It’s an easier way to calm people down and that way they don’t look at me like I’m some kind of mutant
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Well, thats what I do everyday… 
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I believe so. Believe it or not when I was locked up in the hospital for 8 months, literally the biggest turning point in my recovery was when I got my dormant sense of humor back.
It was at the expense of a trouble making old lady who everyone knew was a bitch most of the time. She did something stupidly and ridiculously bizarre one day and I told my dad about it the next week I was home on a pass and we both cracked up and it just lightened the burden of mental illness and made my stay at the hospital more bearable.
Making people laugh puts them at ease and I use it all the time, with family, with strangers, and with friends when I have them. My brand of humor isn’t everybody’s cup of tea but I’ve never liked tea anyways so it doesn’t bother me. When I first got diagnosed I spent the first two years psychotic and it was torture but I can find instances of humor in it, after the fact. Studies show that laughing is good for your physical and mental health. One benefit is that it lessens stress.
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Did you stop for lunch in between your pacing goals? And I hate to pry but if you stopped for lunch, what were they serving that day?
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Some kind of turkey salad on wheat sandwich bread deal. I took a few bites then went back to pacing. Nothing was going to get in the way of my pacing…until the staff finally drew me into my bedroom for ice cream and an Ativan.
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Edit: it felt like blasphemy to post a Dethklok meme without tagging @flameoftherhine
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My Aunt told me when I got out of the hospital the first time, “laughter is the best medicine”. I’m sure she just got that out of nowhere but she’s always laughing.
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Yeah, in the hospital they really know how to party.
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Yeah, once you make a plan, it’s good to stick with it. I did my share of pacing in the hospital, I’m not good at time management so sometimes my pacing got in the way of my valuable “nap all day time”.
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I was hearing that way back in the 1970’s.
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I shitpost memes about my mental health on Facebook if that says anything about how I feel about this. lol
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Gave me a chuckle. Thank you. 
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