Laughing problem

Webmonkey

Hi There,

For some reason if something sad is mentioned or anything I begin to laugh? I can't help it. If i heard someone died or anything and there is a few people around the silence would make me laugh. Its really bad, it happens at mass a lot.

I know this is bit of a stupid post but does this happen any others?

razorfeather

this jhappens me sometimes, but not if someone dies...

if someones having a serious convo with me i usually just break my **** laughing..lol....i dunno..

Gordon

/an eery silence goes tumbleweeding over the PI board...

Lump

TO be honest, its probably just nerves. Blokes do it a lot. If they are told that something bad had happened they tend to laugh, or just talking .... talking a lot. I dont have any advice of what you could do to stop it.



John

Sandi

Yeah, happens to me too (I'm not a bloke!). If someone's being really serious with me in a really dramatic way I can't help smiling. And when there's a group of people around and there's total silence I can't help bursting into fits of laughter. I don't know what it is about silence but it just sets me off!

azezil

I laugh all of the time, people who don't know me thinks its weird, but its because i see humour in everything... but i don't tell ppl what i'm laughing at cause they usually don't get it or try to have me locked up

ando

Originally posted by Sandi
And when there's a group of people around and there's total silence I can't help bursting into fits of laughter

right someone get the straight jacket out !!!

razorfeather

Originally posted by azezil
I laugh all of the time, people who don't know me thinks its weird, but its because i see humour in everything... but i don't tell ppl what i'm laughing at cause they usually don't get it or try to have me locked up

this is exactly the same with me. i don't even bother TRYING to explain what im laughing at half the time cuz no one else will find it funny....
my friends are used to at this stage ... im just the laugher..

Sandi

Originally posted by ando
right someone get the straight jacket out !!!

Lol! That's not the first time I've heard that! I've also heard, "Stay there, we're calling the men in white coats." And as for the funny looks!

cournioni

Yeah I do that alot too. I don't think that it is uncommon, I know a few people who do it too.

DerekD Goldfish

Im always doing that a few examples are
My mate flunked out of colege burst into laughter he wasnt to happy
When I heard about those two kids getting run over by a train
burst into laughter and then said stupid kids before enventually geting myself togeter
September 11 I was told to turn on sky news turned it on and a plane had just hit one of the towers que laugher and me saying stupid pilot before eventually regaining composure

Webmonkey

Phew thought i had a problem there

Sandi

Lol! It looks like we're all a bit mad in the head. And it's the best way to be!

MrNuked

Two expostulations:

1) It's a reflex to push away things you don't want to hear about, prevent them from bothering you.

2) You are evil and delight in the misery of others.

The Corinthian

Originally posted by Webmonkey
For some reason if something sad is mentioned or anything I begin to laugh? I can't help it. If i heard someone died or anything and there is a few people around the silence would make me laugh. Its really bad, it happens at mass a lot.

I used to have that. It's called schadenfreude.

I got it under control now though, and tend only to smile at the suffering of others.

All right, I let a giggle slip every now and then.

phaxx

Not quite the same, but I have a habit of grinning stupidly when I'm accused of something minor. Was a pain in the ass when I was younger, I'd be asked "did you make that mess?" and I'd grin broadly and say "eh, no" and that would be me in my room for the rest of the day.

It still happens from time to time, but not as much.

sci0x

Originally posted by phaxx
Not quite the same, but I have a habit of grinning stupidly when I'm accused of something minor. Was a pain in the ass when I was younger, I'd be asked "did you make that mess?" and I'd grin broadly and say "eh, no" and that would be me in my room for the rest of the day.

It still happens from time to time, but not as much.

Same bloody thing happens me. I am asked did I do this or that and i know I bloody well didnt do it and yet I start smiling guiltily. This breaks into a laugh so now i'm laughing saying no which isnt very believeable. Very annoying

UbahOne

I have it. I have a laughing personality really. People who get it are my friends, people who dont get it tend to hate me a lot. Im not bothered though...their loss. There dry ****es.

Webmonkey

Its really bad at work when i talkign seriously to the boss and i break out into laughter he hasn't a clue whats up. I don't even know why i'm laughing

hedgetrimmer

Laughter is a very common way of dealing with traumatic news and or bad news. It's basically a reaction to an overload of emotion - it's a way of burning off the chemicals, making your body cope with the adrenalin and realising endorphins to counteract the..um... bad-buzz-phins.

Not uncommon, not sure how to counteract it, other than leave the room as not to offend others, I guess

mooman_00

I laugh at and make jokes about everything its my way of dealing with shiit as MrNuked said its so it doesn't affect you. I also find myself laughing at nothing sometimes and having to try to explain to my friends what the fuc.k is going on.

I laugh at funerals and when im informed of someone i knew's death. Dont get me wrong its not an open hearty laugh into the faces of others i just usually smile and laugh to myself. Its usually cuz id be after remembering something funny/stupid that involved me and/or that person. I dont think there is anything wrong with it, remembering the good times that you spend with some one before they passed on is much healthier than being overly depressed about it imo. If i think about some of my friends who've passed on i think about the fun we had rather than their funeral or death.

Its the same with me about serious matters. If anyone, even people, at work are explaining something really serious to me or acusing me of something then i just break out in giggles.
It made school tough as i was blamed for everything. Granted most of the time i was actually involved, but when i wasn't involved my laughing was always a lot worse. I remember one time when i was 17 being questioned by 3 garda about a car that had got damaged in a town that we were going out in. I was drunk and laughing into their faces while trying to convince them that i wasn't involved....... i dont know how i wasn't taken away by them.

Anyway it seems fairly common by the looks of things.

razorfeather

Originally posted by azezil
I laugh all of the time, people who don't know me thinks its weird, but its because i see humour in everything... but i don't tell ppl what i'm laughing at cause they usually don't get it or try to have me locked up

w3rd to that!

Fair Enough

someone died or anything and there is a few people around the silence would make me laugh.

I have a friend like that. It's her way of dealing with things. E.g. Her best freind died in a horrific car crash and when she was told she went blue in the face laughing.

It definately is common though. I hear that one a lot.

Flashling

I get it to, but when I laugh, I burst into tears too, so I'm rolling around, hysterically laughing and crying, while everyone is staring at me in disgust, and muttering
"Oh no! Thats awful! He was so young!"

Mommy,am I normal?:(