Poll: Do you still have your sense of humour?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I have the worst humour. Part dad jokes, part really offensive stuff, and part just plain dumb things, haha

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No. I miss laughing until I cry or even spew :joy:

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Dark and gallows humor are my thing. Even my kids watching horror movies with or without me we laugh at the variety of kills done.

And my oldest for school picture day is wearing a shirt with blood splatters on it that says I’m Fine. Kiefer is wearing a shirt that just says I Purged with the American flag like the I voted stickers you get. And Raina got a little goat with pentagram on it’s forehead sitting in a coffee mug that says I like my Magick like I like My Coffee.

My mom is squealing and trying to find the perfect frame. We’re technically just cell picture taking cause the smaller amount you can send is 40 bucks per kid from school photo company. And that just 8 wallet photos for 40 bucks, such a ripoff. I haven’t gotten school pics since 2015 I think.

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I no longer find anything funny.

However, my schizophrenia sometimes creates a ‘fake funny’ feeling, which can consist of a funny visual vibe applied to an image, and/or an alien funny feeling on my face.

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I don´t like cruel jokes anymore. I used to kinda like them.

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I think you mean inappropriate emotions?
I have it and sometimes I laugh on sad things or for no reason, ppl think I am crazy. I laugh in funerals, church when the priest is preaching etc Ppl look at me madly thinking I am crazy or possessed.

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I used to have a sense of humor and was once voted funniest person by my class in high school.
Lost my sense of humor once placed on APs

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maybe I did. or not. I can laugh so I know I got one.

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I know I still have it… I simply don’t remember where I’ve put it.

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I enjoy slapstick humor, Airplane, Naked Gun.
Surely you can’t be serious. I am serious and don’t call me Shirley.

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I keep up with the latest, most god-awful jokes and one-liners. Stuff that’ll make your hair curl and either laugh hysterically, or lose all sense of hope for mankind. I’d post some here, but they’d get flagged in an instant.

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By ‘alien’ I mean feelings that I never experienced before in my life, feelings that normal people don’t experience, feelings that perhaps no other being has ever experienced on this planet.

I don’t have inappropriate emotions. I have no emotions at all. I wouldn’t call the feelings I get as inappropriate, in the sense of a dysfunctioning brain/mind producing inappropriate emotions. The feelings I get don’t stem from simple dysfunction - they’re being produced/controlled by something intelligent.
By ‘intelligent’ I mean some unnatural process in my brain, consciousness or soul, that recognizes and understands things I see and hear, and reacts to those things in a particular way. For example, every time I see a young woman it applies some visual vibe to them. One day I saw some images of women, and it applied a pleasant/pretty vibe to them. The next time I saw those imagtes again it applied a intensely menacing vibe to those women. It does this quite often - first gives something a good appearance, then next time it won’t apply the pleasant vibe any more, or even applies an unpleasant vibe. The voices have told me it’s doing this to induce disappointment: supposedly I expect to see a pleasant/pretty vibe every time because I saw a pleasant/pretty looking women before, but instead my schizophrenia applies a neutral or unpleasant vibe to them.

Also, the things I call ‘feelings’ and ‘vibes’ are 2 different categories of things I experience, and they are not emotions.
To get a better picture of what I mean by those 2:

  1. Vibes: This is an ‘addition’ to the senses. There can be vibes for all senses: visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory. If you have seen a beautiful woman, the ‘beauty’ is a visual vibe - a visual effect that your brain applies applies to an image of a woman. The vibes I experience are unnatural. For example it has made music sound like death. Nothing should sound like death, because there is no such thing as the sound of death in the real world; yet I experience such things.
  2. Feelings: Not all feelings are emotions, for example physical pain. Just like pain, this ‘fake funny’ feeling is something that I can physically feel in my body - in the face to be precise. My face does not have to be smiling for it to apply this strange feeling. There are countless of different alien non-emotion feelings that I experience in my body or mind every day.
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What you describe is positive symptoms of sz.

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I used to have a hearty laugh. It was really good. Kind of like Gabby has from desperate housewives. Now I don’t. In recovery college they say that recovery makes you a DIFFERENT person, not the same you were before but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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Im not really that much of a funny person. I still love comedy though. Like I have nearly been in tears watching the latest Ranganation series.

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i laugh. occasionally i say something funny. funny is good for self image. when you can laugh stress falls away, things look better, the world turns around. and you know.

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My sense of humour and the music I create are my two bullets against this beast called Schizophrenia.

I’m kind of an encyclopedia of humour. I remember scores of jokes and my recall for them is excellent. It keeps me in good stead with casual conversation, as I can flip most any discussion with anybody into a hearty laugh.

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