Laughter and comedy is regarded as some of the effective antidepressant drugs that most of the masses choose over medications. Depression is one of the main mental health concerns that can destroy the life of any individual if not diagnosed soon enough. Most of the time, it is difficult to understand that you have been affected by depression. People of today, seek out different means to fight or prevent depression. They turn to laughter therapy for depression, practice meditation and so on. Most of them prefer natural remedies like yoga simply because of the fact that it does not raise the possibility of side affects like medications. Laughter therapy is regarded as one of the best remedies to suppress depression.
When you take a deep laugh or chuckle a serotonin known as ‘happy chemical’ is released in your brain. This plays a crucial role in creating a pleasant feeling. Moreover, laughing can also help you to reduce some stress related hormones like adrenaline, dopamine etc. Stress can lead to depression is not treated soon enough, therefore, by suppressing stress you are literally killing down the possibility of depression formation. Laughter is also something that helps you to fight against the feeling of pain, you could also consider laughter as a good workout variable for the heart, abdomen muscles etc. When you are affected by depression, make it a point to join events or activities that include laughter. You can also consider socializing with people who could make you laugh sincerely.
Laughter is the best medicine that can help you to gain control over yourself.
That is all very helpful.
Perhaps another way to put it is that it helps you to lose control of yourself - in a good way.
Laughter IS a wonderful catharsis, defense against depression.
What does one do though when one is clinically depressed to the point of not wanting to even laugh, not wanting to enjoy anything of life?
When one loses interest in anything about life, when one’s existence seems to have fallen into the toilet, as it were, what does one do?
Taking a long walk is a great thing for one’s mental state - getting though endorphins dancing around, surrounding one’s self with all of the green of nature. But how does one WILL one’s self to the point of taking that step to help one’s self?
I wonder if there needs to be a balance even in laughter? Could one laugh to the point where that laughter turns to tears, to crying? Could that even be a good thing? Perhaps it can be - a balance of pain and joy, if that makes sense.
Could the use of laughter to suppress the depression - work against the person?
Perhaps not. Maybe one could look at laughter as a blessing from the gods - a touch of that god’s hand upon the human heart, a touch upon the mind to calm and ease its turmoil.
These are just my silly musings.
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Any research to back up laughter therapy working on people who are suffering from depression.
Are you simply advertising your webpage?
Laughter therapy is regarded BY WHOM as one of the best remedies to suppress depression?
Laughter and comedy is regarded BY WHOM as some of the effective antidepressant drugs that most of the masses choose over medications?
This use of passive Construction comes off as very fishy to me.
Simply advertising Moreno, although advertising something at least that is valuable.
I am not sure about that. I do Think that after one laughs one like does have some nice Little hormonal and neurotransmitter patterns going on.
I am just on the skeptical side that a despressed person can use it to ‘suppress’ depression. (that phrase itself makes me a bit skeptical)
I do Think some wag the dog effects are real. But I would need to see how the depressed person is engaged with in the therapy.
Certainly telling them to laugh more is pretty silly, you might as well tell them to cheer up.
I would guess their program is a bit more sophisticated than this, but is there any evidence it works with people who are depressed?
They have to integrate it, in a regular way, into their lives.
I can’t see it helping long term depression but, it does stop short term depression. Take people gathering after a person dies. People talk and tell stories, causing laughter which relieves the pain of grief. Sharing laughter bonds even if just for a short while.
Though that’s not really depression, that’s grief. For me it doesn’t relieve the pain of grief, but puts all the feelings out on the table, which is good. A celebration of the person and grief for the loss. I am not sure it reduces the amount of grief I feel, but it engages the whole of me.
Grief is not the same as depression Moreno.
Hm, that seems pretty much exactly what I said.
I don’t think it was but hey I might of misread it.
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I don’t think that Kris was actually confusing grief with depression neither but Moreno DID say that grief was not the same as depression.
Trite but true.
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Mispronounciation. 
Cojugate the verb to whomever.
Knowing that I suffer from major depression, my sister in the deep South calls me and ends her conversation with a joke. It’s like a shot of happy in the arm. My mother also sufferered from depression. Once she was sad, but still looking outfor me. It was breakfast time. She asked, “Feel like an egg?” I responded, “I donno. How does an egg feel?” It broke her spell.
Cracking yoke there. :-"
Eggstraordinary.
Is it somethiing to do with the EGGO?
How does Humpty Dumpty feel, cracking?
Moreno
I tend to agree with you here, Moreno.
When memory/pain/grief/depression is “suppressed” there cannot be in the long run, good mental health. All of that has to be faced and addressed. We would probably be surprised how things which are suppressed or repressed within us can so screw up our systems. Of course, the slime has to rise to the top slowly and with the aid of someone who knows what they are about.
But I do agree that laughter can be a great thing. Perhaps it might depend more on how deeply depressed a person is. I think that within the mind of a depressed person there still IS a strong, healthy part somewhere which is capable of being forgetful for a moment and so is able to see something as really funnny and LOL and that can be healthy but laughter still is not the end all - but only a little shot in the arm.
Gee! Put your guns away. Your arms must be getting tired by now. 
It’s the gun show!
If grief is not short term depression then I don’t know what it is. I did not equate it to the medical depression.
Suffering the loss of love is faced better with humor and the support of those around you making you smile and laugh. Its a balm for the pain.